In the United States, it is a governing body of a utility. In Canada, it is a utility, not a regulatory body.

Canada

In Canada, a public utilities commission (PUC) is a

public utility A public utility company (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 ...

owned and operated by a municipal or local government under the oversight of one or more elected commissioners. It is not a regulatory body. Its role is analogous to a municipal utility district or public utility district in the US. * Brantford Public Utilities Commission *

Kitchener Public Utilities Commission The Kitchener Public Utilities Commission (KPUC, or PUC) was the municipal public utilities commission for the city of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, as well as the surrounding area. Its former office in downtown Kitchener, constructed in 1931 in ...

Regulatory bodies

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. These utilities often operate as legal monopolies, which means that they do not compete in a marketplace but are instead regulated by commissions to ensure fair pricing.

Countries

;Americas * Caribbean:

Organisation of Caribbean Utility Regulators An organization or organisation ( Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is an entity—such as a company, an institution, or an association—comprising one or more people and having a particular purpose. The word is derived f ...

(OOCUR) * Costa Rica:

Costa Rica Public Utilities Commission Costa may refer to: Biology * Rib (Latin: ''costa''), in vertebrate anatomy * Costa (botany), the central strand of a plant leaf or thallus * Costa (coral), a stony rib, part of the skeleton of a coral * Costa (entomology), the leading edge of t ...

*Dominican Republic:

c Utilities Commission C, or c, is the third letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''cee'' (pronounced ), plural ''cees''. History "C" ...

* Bahamas:

Bahamas Public Utilities Commission The Bahamas (), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to 88% of the ar ...

* Belize: Belize Public Utilities Commission * Chile: Superintendencia de Servicios Sanitarios de Chile ;Europe * France:

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;Africa * Ghana: Public Utility Regulation Council of Ghana (PURC) ;Asia * Sri Lanka: Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka

United States

In the United States, 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

, such as an

electric utility An electric utility is a company in the electric power industry (often a public utility) that engages in electricity generation and distribution of electricity for sale generally in a regulated market. The electrical utility industry is a majo ...

. In some cases, government bodies with the title "public service commission" may be civil service oversight bodies, rather than utilities regulators. 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 The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) was a regulatory agency in the United States created by the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. The agency's original purpose was to regulate railroads (and later trucking) to ensure fair rates, to elimina ...

and

Federal Communications Commission The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States. The FCC maintains jurisd ...

perform similar functions in their respective fields in the United States.

Elected by district

* Louisiana Public Service Commission * Mississippi Public Service Commission * Montana Public Service Commission * Nebraska Public Service Commission * New Mexico Public Regulation Commission

Elected at-large

* Alabama Public Service Commission * Arizona Corporation Commission * Georgia Public Service Commission * New England Conference of Public Utilities * North Dakota Public Service Commission *

Oklahoma Corporation Commission The Oklahoma Corporation Commission is the public utilities commission of the U.S state of Oklahoma run by three statewide elected commissioners. Authorized to employ more than 400 employees, it regulates oil and gas drilling, utilities and tele ...

* South Dakota Public Utilities Commission

Legislative appointment

* South Carolina Public Service Commission * Virginia State Corporation Commission

Appointed by the governor

Regulatory Commission of Alaska Regulation is the management of complex systems according to a set of rules and trends. In systems theory, these types of rules exist in various fields of biology and society, but the term has slightly different meanings according to context. For ...

Arkansas Public Service Commission The Arkansas Public Service Commission (APSC) regulates the service and rates of those utilities subject to its jurisdiction in the State of Arkansas, United States. It was originally created by the Arkansas General Assembly on March 11, 1899, as ...

* California Public Utilities Commission ** San Francisco Public Utilities Commission nominated by the Mayor of San Francisco and confirmed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors *

Colorado Public Utilities Commission The Public Utilities Commission of the State of Colorado (PUC) provides regulatory oversight of public utilities in the State of Colorado of the United States. The Colorado PUC consists of a director and three commissioners appointed by the Gover ...

* Connecticut ** Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection **

Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its cap ...

Connecticut Siting Council The Connecticut Siting Council is a State of Connecticut entity that has legal jurisdiction over the siting of power facilities, transmission lines, hazardous waste facilities, telecommunications towers, and other types of infrastructure. It was ...

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 tel ...

* District of Columbia Public Service Commission * Florida Public Service Commission * Hawaii Public Utilities Commission * Idaho Public Utilities Commission *

Illinois Commerce Commission The Illinois Commerce Commission is a quasi-judicial tribunal that regulates public utility services in the U.S. state of Illinois. The mission of the ICC is "to pursue an appropriate balance between the interest of consumers and existing and em ...

* Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission * Iowa Utilities Board * Kansas Corporation Commission * Kentucky Public Service Commission *

Maine Public Utilities Commission The Maine Public Utilities Commission is a government agency that regulates water, electric, natural gas, and telecommunications in the state of Maine. The commission also oversees ferries and water taxis in Casco Bay. The three full-time commissi ...

* Maryland Public Service Commission * Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities **

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* Michigan Public Service Commission * Minnesota Public Utilities Commission * Missouri Public Service Commission * Nevada Public Utilities Commission *

New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission The New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission (NHPUC) is a government agency of the U.S. state of New Hampshire. Headquartered in Concord, it is a public utilities commission with jurisdiction over electric, natural gas, water and sewer utilities ...

* New Jersey Board of Public Utilities *

New York Public Service Commission The New York Public Service Commission is the public utilities commission of the New York state government that regulates and oversees the electric, gas, water, and telecommunication industries in New York as part of the Department of Public Servi ...

* North Carolina Utilities Commission * Public Utilities Commission of Ohio *

Oregon Public Utility Commission The Oregon Public Utility Commission (PUC) 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 c ...

* Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission *

Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission Rhode may refer to: *In Greek mythology: :*Rhodos, goddess and personification of the island of Rhodes :*Rhode, one of the fifty daughters of Danaus * ''Rhode'' (spider), a genus of spiders *Rhode (surname) *Rhode, County Offaly, an Irish town *Rh ...

* Tennessee Public Service Commission (1897-1996) **

Tennessee Regulatory Authority The Tennessee Public Utility Commission (TPUC) is the Tennessee governmental unit charged with the responsibility of setting rates and service standards for privately owned telephone, natural gas, electric, and water utilities. History The ...

(since 1996) *

Texas Public Utility Commission The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUC or PUCT) is a state agency that regulates the state’s electric, water and telecommunication utilities, implements respective legislation, and offers customer assistance in resolving consumer complaints ...

Utah Public Service Commission The Utah Division of Public Utilities regulates the energy, telecommunications, gas and water companies located in Utah. See also * Public Utilities Commission External links Utah Division of Public Utilities Website Utah State agencies of ...

* Vermont **

Vermont Department of Public Service Vermont () is a state in the northeast New England region of the United States. Vermont is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to ...

Vermont Public Utility Commission The Vermont Public Utility Commission (formerly known as the Vermont Public Service Board) is a government agency of the State of Vermont that supervises the rates, quality of service, and overall financial management of public utilities in Vermon ...

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* Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission * West Virginia Public Service Commission *

Public Service Commission of Wisconsin The Public Service Commission of Wisconsin is an independent regulatory agency responsible for regulating public utilities in the energy, telecommunications, gas and water companies located in U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of 2021, the agency regul ...

* Wyoming Public Service Commission

Canada

* Ontario Energy Board * British Columbia Utilities Commission * Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board * Board of Commissioners of Public Utilities * Island Regulatory and Appeals Commission * New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board * Manitoba Public Utilities Board

References

External links

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List of regulatory commissions
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