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.
Kendall is a town in Orleans County, New York, United States. The population was 2,838 at the 2000 census. The town is named after Amos Kendall, the U.S. Postmaster General under Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. The Town of Kendall is in the northeast corner of the county and is northwest of Rochester.