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.
Loysburg, Pennsylvania is a small town in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, United States in part of South Woodbury Township. It lies in Morrison Cove along Pennsylvania Route 36 and the Yellow Creek near the Loysburg Gap in Tussey Mountain. Once name "Pattonville" in 1844 but was renamed back to Loyburg in 1864.