Public utilities provide electric, gas, water or telephone service to customers in a specified area. Utilities have a duty to provide safe and adequate service on reasonable terms to anyone who lives within the service area on without discriminating between customers. Because most utilities operate in near monopolistic conditions, they can be heavily regulated by local, state, and federal authorities. Generally, the local and state agencies are called Public Service Commissions (PSC) or Public Utility Commissions (PUC). Municipal Utilities and Rural Electric Cooperatives may be unregulated though.
South Sioux City is a city in Dakota County, Nebraska, in the United States. It is part of the Sioux City, IA–NE–SD Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 11,925. South Sioux City is located immediately across the Missouri River from Sioux City, Iowa, and is part of the Sioux City metropolitan area.