Public utility
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A public utility (usually just utility) is an organization that maintains the infrastructure for a public service (often also providing a service using that infrastructure). Public utilities are subject to forms of public control and regulation ranging from local community-based groups to state-wide government monopolies. (Common arguments in favor of regulation include the desire to control market power, facilitate competition, promote investment or system expansion, or stabilize markets. In general, though, regulation occurs when the government believes that the operator, left to his own devices, would behave in a way that is contrary to the government’s objectives.)
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See also
- Lists of public utilities
- Electric utility
- Telephone company
- Water industry
- Airline deregulation
- Common utility duct
- Electricity market
- Energy
- Firm service
- Liberalization
- Machine Tractor Station
- NAICS 22
- American Public Power Association
- National Rural Water Association
- Off-the-grid
- Public services
- Rate Case
- Telecommunications
- Universal service
- Utility cooperative
- Infrastructure
- Dartford Cable Tunnel
- Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935
- Public Utilities Commission
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