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.
Weyers Cave is a census-designated place (CDP) in Augusta County, Virginia, United States. The population was 1,225 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Staunton–Waynesboro Micropolitan Statistical Area. Weyers Cave is the site of the first chapter (1927) of the Future Farmers of Virginia, later to become the national organization, Future Farmers of America (FFA). It is also the site of Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport and the main campus of Blue Ridge Community College.