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 A public 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. In some cases, government bodies with the title "Public Service Commission" may be civil service oversight bodies A civil service commission is a government agency that is constituted by legislature to regulate the employment and working conditions of civil servants, oversee hiring and promotions, and promote the values of the public service. Its role is roughly analogous to that of the human resources department in corporations. Civil service commissions are, 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 In the United States, a public utility district is a special-purpose district or other governmental jurisdiction that provides public utilities (such as electricity, natural gas, sewage treatment, waste collection/management, wholesale telecommunications, water) to the residents of that district, a state or government 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 [1]
- Belize Public Utilities Commission [2]
United States:
- Alabama Public Service Commission The Alabama Public Service Commission is a body of three elected members, a President and two associate commissioners, who each serve 4-year terms. The President is elected during Presidential elections and the associate commissioners are elected during midterm elections. The Commission is primarily charged with setting the rates that private [3]
- Regulatory Commission of Alaska [4]
- Arizona Corporation Commission The Arizona Corporation Commission is the Public Utilities Commission of the State of Arizona, established by Article 15 of the Arizona Constitution. There are currently five members of the commission . Arizona is one of only a handful of states with elected commissioners. The Arizona constitution itself explicitly calls for an elected commission ( [5]
- Arkansas Public Service Commission The Arkansas Public Service Commission regulates the service and rates of those utilities subject to its jurisdiction in Arkansas. When it was originally created by the General Assembly in 1899, this was only the Railroads. Today the commission regulates telephone service, natural gas lines, water pipelines, and electricity [6]
- California Public Utilities Commission The California Public Utilities Commission is a state Public Utilities Commission which regulates privately-owned utilities in the state of California, including electric power, telecommunications, natural gas and water companies. In addition, the CPUC regulates common carriers including household goods movers, passenger transportation companies ( [7]
- Colorado Public Utilities Commission The Public Utilities Commission of the State of Colorado provides regulatory oversight of public utilities in the State of Colorado of the United States [8]
- Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control [9]
- Delaware Public Service Commission The Delaware Public Service Commission is a public utilities commission, a quasi-judicial tribunal, which regulates investor-owned public utilities in the U.S. state of Delaware. It regulates cable, electric, natural gas, wastewater, water and telecommunications services [10]
- District of Columbia Public Service Commission The District of Columbia Public Service Commission is an independent quasi-judicial body and regulatory agency responsible for regulating landline telephone, electricity and gas utility companies operating within the District of Columbia. It was established by the US Congress in 1913 [11]
- Florida Public Service Commission Florida Public Service Commission is an independent regulatory agency serving the public of Florida by managing its public utilities, including telecommunications, electricity, natural gas, water, and wastewater [12]
- Georgia Public Service Commission [13]
- Hawaii Public Utilities Commission [14]
- Idaho Public Utilities Commission [15]
- Illinois Commerce Commission The Illinois Commerce Commission is a quasi-judicial tribunal which regulates public utility services in the U.S. state of Illinois [16]
- Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission [17]
- Iowa Utilities Board [18]
- Kansas Corporation Commission The Kansas Corporation Commission is the public utilities commission of the state of Kansas run by three Commissioners appointed by the Governor with the approval of the Senate. The Commission has the responsibility of ensuring that natural gas, electricity, telephone and transportation vendors provide safe, adequate and reliable services at [19]
- Kentucky Public Service Commission [20]
- Louisiana Public Service Commission Louisiana Public Service Commission is an independent regulatory agency which manages public utilities and motor carriers in Louisiana. The commission has five elected members chosen in single-member districts for staggered six-year terms. Thus the commissioners have large constituencies (bigger, e.g., than congressional districts), long terms (6 [21]
- Maine Public Utilities Commission [22]
- Maryland Public Service Commission The Maryland Public Service Commission is an independent administrative agency within the state government which regulates public utilities and certain taxi cab and other passenger services in Maryland. Similar to other state Public Utilities Commissions, the Maryland PSC regulates and sets tariff rates for natural gas, electricity distribution, [23]
- Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities [24]
- Michigan Public Service Commission [25]
- Minnesota Public Utilities Commission The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission is the consumer protection agency in the U.S. state of Minnesota charged with the regulation of public utilities such as electric and telephone service. Its commissioners are appointed by the governor [26]
- Mississippi Public Service Commission [27]
- Missouri Public Service Commission [28]
- Montana Public Service Commission [29]
- Nebraska Public Service Commission [30]
- Nevada Public Utilities Commission Categories: Public utilities commissions of the United States | State agencies of Nevada | [31]
- New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission is a New Hampshire state government regulatory agency that regulates and approves some of the charges of electric, telecommunications, natural gas, water and sewer utilities in the state [32]
- New Jersey Board of Public Utilities The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities is a regulatory authority in New Jersey charged with the responsibility of seeing that "safe, adequate, and proper utility services are provided at reasonable rates for customers in New Jersey." The NJBPU regulates natural gas, electricity, water, telecommunications and cable television services [33]
- New Mexico Public Regulation Commission [34]
- New York Public Service Commission [35]
- North Carolina Utilities Commission [36]
- North Dakota Public Service Commission The North Dakota Public Service Commission is a constitutional agency that maintains various degrees of statutory authority over utilities, telecommunications, railroads, grain elevators, pipeline safety, and other functions in North Dakota [37]
- Public Utilities Commission of Ohio The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio is an agency of State of Ohio that is charged with the regulation of utility service providers such as those of electricity, natural gas, and telecommunications as well as railroad safety and intrastate hazardous materials transport [38]
- Oklahoma Corporation Commission The Oklahoma Corporation Commission is the public utilities commission of the state of Oklahoma run by three state-wide elected Commissioners, assisted by 600 employees. It regulates oil and gas drilling, utilities and telephone companies [39]
- Oregon Public Utility Commission The Oregon Public Utility Commission is the chief electric, gas and telephone utility regulatory agency of the government of the U.S. state of Oregon. It sets rates and establishes rules of operation for the state's investor-owned utility companies. With respect to publicly owned utility districts and cooperatives, its authority is limited to [40]
- Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission is a public utilities commission in Pennsylvania [41]
- Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission [42]
- South Carolina Public Service Commission [43]
- South Dakota Public Utilities Commission [44]
- Tennessee Public Service Commission The Tennessee Public Service Commission was a three-member elected body which regulated private utilities, trucking firms, and railroads within the state of Tennessee. It was dissolved in 1996 when its functions were transferred to the Tennessee Regulatory Authority
- Texas Public Utility Commission The Public Utility Commission of Texas is a state Public Utilities Commission which regulates privately-owned utilities in the state of Texas. It is headquartered in the William B. Travis State Office Building at 1701 North Congress in Austin [45]
- Public Service Commission of Utah [46]
- Vermont Public Service Board [47]
- Virginia State Corporation Commission The State Corporation Commission, or SCC, is a Virginia regulatory agency whose authority encompasses utilities, insurance, state-chartered financial institutions, securities, retail franchising, and railroads [48]
- Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission The Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission is a three-member board appointed by the Governor of Washington and confirmed by the Washington State Senate to six year terms. The purpose of the UTC is to regulate the rates, services, and practices of privately-owned utilities and transportation companies, including electric, [49]
- West Virginia Public Service Commission [50]
- Wisconsin Public Service Commission [51]
- Wyoming Public Service Commission [52]
- The Interstate Commerce Commission The Interstate Commerce Commission was a regulatory body in the United States created by the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, which was signed into law by President Grover Cleveland. The agency was abolished in 1995, and the agency's remaining functions were transferred to the Surface Transportation Board and Federal Communications Commission The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, directed and empowered by Congressional statute (see 47 U.S.C. § 151 and 47 U.S.C. § 154), and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, perform similar functions in their respective fields in the United States.
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