This utility serves no useful purpose at all, but it's great fun.

His group represents government-owned utilities serving about 15 percent of the nation.

We continue to expect utilities to serve their customers with low-cost power while earning a fair rate of return.

Leaving private service providers apart, it is the largest utility in France, serving more than 4 million users.

The utility serves 1.3 million customers over most of the lower two-thirds of the state.

"Explosions apparently damaged some of the utilities serving the city," Spock said.

The utility serves 260,000 electricity customers in eight counties.

Edison's territory spans 50,000 square miles, or a third of California, and the utility serves 45 percent of the state's 22 million people.

Most of the nation's approximately 2,200 municipally run systems are in small cities, while private utilities, numbering about 200, generally serve larger urban areas.

The combined utility would also have assets of $17.7 billion and serve 54,000 square miles in central and Southern California.