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.
Rocky Gap is a unincorporated area that is located in Bland County in the U.S. state of Virginia. Rocky Gap sits at a high elevation of 2,334 ft. The highest point in the area is 2,583 ft. In the year of 2000, there was a total of 78 people living in Rocky Gap.