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.
Adah, Pennsylvania, is a village in German Township, Fayette County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It is known as a patch town as it was created to support a coal mine. Adah is the home of the Palmer Mine, one of Henry Clay Frick's holdings. A sub-division of adah is referred to by many as Gates: a two block patch town in itself. Gates is home to musician Todd Tamanend Clark, and musician Sachem Orenda.