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.
Allenton, Wisconsin is a small unincorporated community in the western part of the town of Addison, Wisconsin in Washington County, Wisconsin. It is located on Wisconsin Highway 33 near its intersection with U.S. Route 41, and also on a line of the Canadian National Railway, parent company of the Wisconsin Central Limited railroad. Allenton has a post office, and is the only community in the USA with zip code 53002.