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A public utility is a company that maintains the infrastructure for a public service. Public utilities often involve natural monopolies, and as a result are often government monopolies, or if privately owned, treated as specially regulated sectors. Public utilities can be privately owned or publicly owned. Publicly owned utilities include cooperative and municipal utilities. Municipal utilities may actually include territories outside of city limits or may not even serve the entire city. Cooperative utilities are owned by the customers they serve. They are usually found in rural areas. Private utilities, also called investor owned utilities, are owned by investors. Unlike public companies, private utilities may be listed on the stock exchange. Private, in this context, means not owned by the public or the government.
In poorer developing countries, public utilities are often limited to wealthier parts of major cities, as used to be the case in developed countries in the nineteenth century.
Examples of utilities are:
- Electric Utility, which in some instances can be Electric power transmission or electricity distribution
- Drinking water purification and distribution
- Sewage treatment and disposal
- Other waste disposal
- Natural gas distribution
- District heat generation and distribution
- Public transport by bus, train, etc.
- Cable television and telephone lines
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Public Utilities :: Business and Economy
Public Utilities :: Business and Economy
Gas Association - Provides support, news and networking to industry professionals. Includes links to oil, gas and geological interests and the state's museum.
Citizens Utility Board (CUB) - Represents consumer interests in rate hearings before the Illinois Commerce Commission. Legislative news, information, and publications are showcased.
Meta Description: [ The Citizens Utility Board (CUB) nonprofit, nonpartisian organization that represents the interests of residential-utility customers of Illinois. ]
Illinois Energy Consortium (IEC) - A joint energy purchasing consortium sponsored by IASB, IASA and IASBO. It is designed to lower utility costs for Illinois school districts and community colleges. Bylaws, newsletters, participation savings and information.
Illinois Municipal Electric Agency - Consortium of 39 municipal electric utilities. Profile and list of members, financial reports, newsletter, deregulation information.
JULIE: The Illinois One-Call System - Provide excavators with a free service through a toll-free phone number for the locating and marking of underground utility facilities. State affiliate of Joint Utility Locating Information for Excavators (JULIE).
Tri-County Electric Cooperative, Inc. - Serving the rural residents of Washington, Jefferson, and Marion Counties, Illinois with affordable electricity.
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