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.
Danbury is an unincorporated community in Burnett County, Wisconsin, United States. The community is located is northwest corner of the Town of Swiss. According to the United States Census Bureau the population in the zip code are (54830) taken in the 2000 census is 2,851 people. The community is known to the local residents as the "Last stop to the Border", since it is located less than 1 mile (1 km) from Wisconsin's border with Minnesota, and main intersection in the community is located at the intersection of two state highways.