A utilities commission, utility regulatory commission (URC), public utilities commission (PUC) or public service commission (PSC) is a governing body that regulates the rates and services of a public utility. In some cases, government bodies with the title "public service commission" may be civil service oversight bodies, rather than utilities regulators.
The utility that is being regulated may be owned by the consumers that it serves, a mutual utility like a public utility district, a state-owned utility, or it may be a stockholder owned utility either publicly traded on a stock exchange or closely held among just a few investors.
Countries:
- Anguilla Public Utilities Commission
- Bahamas Public Utilities Commission
- Belize Public Utilities Commission
- Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka
- Superintendencia de Servicios Sanitarios de Chile
- Commission de Régulation de l'Energie
United States:
- Alabama Public Service Commission
- Regulatory Commission of Alaska
- Arizona Corporation Commission
- Arkansas Public Service Commission
- California Public Utilities Commission
- Colorado Public Utilities Commission
- Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control
- Delaware Public Service Commission
- District of Columbia Public Service Commission
- Florida Public Service Commission
- Georgia Public Service Commission
- Hawaii Public Utilities Commission
- Idaho Public Utilities Commission
- Illinois Commerce Commission
- Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission
- Iowa Utilities Board
- Kansas Corporation Commission
- Kentucky Public Service Commission
- Louisiana Public Service Commission
- Maine Public Utilities Commission
- Maryland Public Service Commission
- Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities
- Michigan Public Service Commission
- Minnesota Public Utilities Commission
- Mississippi Public Service Commission
- Missouri Public Service Commission
- Montana Public Service Commission
- Nebraska Public Service Commission
- Nevada Public Utilities Commission
- New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission
- New Jersey Board of Public Utilities
- New Mexico Public Regulation Commission
- New York Public Service Commission
- North Carolina Utilities Commission
- North Dakota Public Service Commission
- Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
- Oklahoma Corporation Commission
- Oregon Public Utility Commission
- Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
- Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission
- South Carolina Public Service Commission
- South Dakota Public Utilities Commission
- Tennessee Public Service Commission (1897-1996); Tennessee Regulatory Authority (since 1996)
- Texas Public Utility Commission
- Public Service Commission of Utah
- Vermont Public Service Board
- Virginia State Corporation Commission
- Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission
- West Virginia Public Service Commission
- Wisconsin Public Service Commission
- Wyoming Public Service Commission
- The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners is the national association representing the interests of the public utilities commissions in all 50 states. The Interstate Commerce Commission and Federal Communications Commission perform similar functions in their respective fields in the United States.
Famous quotes containing the words public, utilities and/or commission:
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—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all of the utilities of the world. These gay natures contrast with the somewhat stern countenance of ordinary nature: they are like music heard out of a work-house.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don’t want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.”
—Marian Wright Edelman (b. 1939)