public utility
noun
: a business organization (such as an electric company) performing a public service and subject to special governmental regulation
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By that time, the subdivision was inside the city limits, so every house would be connected to public utilities – telephone lines, gas, electricity, water and sewage.
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Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 May 2024
Circuit Judge Frank Remington found state regulators incorrectly interpreted Wisconsin law governing public utilities when approving the project, and returned the issue to the Wisconsin Public Service Commission for further review.
—Karl Ebert, Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2024
California ‘Life-threatening’ storm to slam Southern California beginning Sunday, last for days
Feb. 3, 2024
Regional public utilities, including California Edison and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, were preparing to respond to service outages and downed power lines.
—Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2024
The city of Greenville’s public utility apologized Saturday for a widespread outage whose cause remained a mystery hours after power was restored.
—Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 23 Mar. 2024
The bosses brought in recent Chinese immigrants to tend indoor crops, often stealing industrial quantities of water and power from public utility systems for their operations.
—Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2024
Changes like those made in Senate Bill 291 represent the existing whack-a-mole approach to regulating utilities across America, while a growing number of voices are calling for public utilities commissions and lawmakers to make fundamental changes to how utilities bill customers.
—The Denver Post Editorial Board, The Denver Post, 5 Feb. 2024
There is arguably public utility to knowing her CO2 production as climate change rages and her fans, essentially, fund her flights.
—Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2024
The safety and enforcement division alleged PG&E violated seven CPUC public utility codes.
—Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 May 2024
Circuit Judge Frank Remington found state regulators incorrectly interpreted Wisconsin law governing public utilities when approving the project, and returned the issue to the Wisconsin Public Service Commission for further review.
—Karl Ebert, Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2024
California ‘Life-threatening’ storm to slam Southern California beginning Sunday, last for days
Feb. 3, 2024
Regional public utilities, including California Edison and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, were preparing to respond to service outages and downed power lines.
—Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2024
The city of Greenville’s public utility apologized Saturday for a widespread outage whose cause remained a mystery hours after power was restored.
—Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 23 Mar. 2024
The bosses brought in recent Chinese immigrants to tend indoor crops, often stealing industrial quantities of water and power from public utility systems for their operations.
—Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2024
Changes like those made in Senate Bill 291 represent the existing whack-a-mole approach to regulating utilities across America, while a growing number of voices are calling for public utilities commissions and lawmakers to make fundamental changes to how utilities bill customers.
—The Denver Post Editorial Board, The Denver Post, 5 Feb. 2024
There is arguably public utility to knowing her CO2 production as climate change rages and her fans, essentially, fund her flights.
—Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2024
The safety and enforcement division alleged PG&E violated seven CPUC public utility codes.
—Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
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“Public utility.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/public%20utility. Accessed 9 May. 2024.
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