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.
Laguna is a census-designated place (CDP) in Cibola County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 423 at the 2000 census. Located west of Albuquerque, Laguna is a former Indian Pueblo village. The area of historic Laguna Pueblo is usually called Old Laguna and the modern "suburbs", New Laguna. Laguna was founded in 1699, making it the most recent of the New Mexican pueblos. The Laguna Pueblos speak Western Keresan. Laguna is home to an annual feast to San José.