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.
New Auburn is a village in Barron and Chippewa Counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The village is located mostly within the Town of Auburn in Chippewa County. A small portion extends east into the adjacent Town of Bloomer, also in Chippewa County. A small portion also extends north into the Town of Dovre in Barron County. The population was 562 at the 2000 census.