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.
Plainfield is a town in Sullivan County, New Hampshire, United States. Plainfield includes the village of Meriden, home to Kimball Union Academy, a private preparatory school. The town is home to the Helen Woodruff Smith Bird Sanctuary and Annie Duncan State Forest.