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.
Glen Rock is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 11,546. Glen Rock was formed on September 14, 1894 from portions of both Ridgewood Township and Saddle River Township, "that being the year the county went crazy on boroughs."