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.
Sobieski, Wisconsin is an unincorporated community in Oconto County in northeastern Wisconsin. It is located within in the town of Little Suamico. Sobieski is home to approximately 250 people, as well as six taverns, a daycare center, a landfill and a Catholic church. It is part of the Green Bay Metropolitan Statistical Area. The Little Suamico Town Hall is located in Sobieski, just east of the Escanaba and Lake Superior railway. Sobieski is located along County Trunk Highway S and Cross Road. Sandalwood Road and Krause Road also enter the borough. The Little Suamico River flows just south of the St. John Cantius parish cemetery. County S intersects with US Highway 41/141 about a half-mile east of Sobieski.