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.
Monroe is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 759 at the 2000 census. It is a narrow strip of land located along a bend of the Connecticut River, across from Barnet, Vermont. It was originally chartered as part of Lyman.