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.
Rose Lodge is a census-designated place (CDP) and unincorporated community in Lincoln County, Oregon, United States. The population was 1,708 at the 2000 census. Rose Lodge was named for a rose bower over the front gate of the post office established in 1908 by postmaster Julia Dodson.