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Utility
* Many utilities have educational programs about energy and the environment for schools.
* Most utilities deliver electricity
  - provide electricity
* Some utilities maintain cities.
* Utilities are a major cost of doing business especially in California
  - an essential aspect of life
  - collections of programs that do work
  - facilities
  - numerical expressions of patient preferences for a particular state of health
  - price takers and they normally pay a certain price to buy wholesale energy
  - programs that fill in the gaps in the operating system
  - quality
  - quantitative measures of patient preferences
  - services
  - specialized programs performing specific tasks
  - stand-alone programs that perform a specific function
* Utilities are the major source of many heavy metal emissions
  - spanners and screwdrivers of the software world
* Utilities can include power, telephone, water, gas, cable, and others
  - reduce sulfur dioxide emissions by switching to coal with a lower sulfur content
  - collection of applications, tools and utilities
  - get energy
  - have facilities
  - install facilities
  - manufacture electricity
* Utilities provide assistance
  - electric services
  - emergency assistance
  - represent the subjective preferences of individuals
  - require inspections
  - trade on earnings and dividends
* Utilities use consumption
  - gas consumption
  - pentachlorophenal to protect power and telephone poles from wood-eating insects
* also plays a role in incentives.
* always determines price which in turn determines costs.
* dull, businesslike word, a word to describe water and electricity services.
* exists only in theory, or in the thoughts of the person.
* is an economic concept that describes consumer satisfaction.
* is the economist's term for pleasure or satisfaction
  - value put on what can be purchased with available income
  - want-satisfying power of a good or service
* measure of satisfaction.
* necessary part in the completeness of life.
* refers to a. the usefulness of a good
  - verifiability and comprehensives
* term economists use to describe the want-satisfying potential of a good or service.
* way to distinguish between multi-agent plans when several plans are likely.

Utility company
* Many utility companies supplement their power with power from wind farms.
* Most utility companies provide electricity.
* Some utility companies provide energy.
* Utility companies may have interest.
* Utility companies provide electricity, gas and communications wiring
  - use natural gas to produce electricity

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Bus company
* Bus companies are utilities.
* is an utility

Bus service
- the most common form of public transit
+ Concord, California, Transportation
  * Since then, more track was built. BART now goes farther than Concord. Bus service runs in the city and other points in the county.
+ Transperth: Australian railways
  * Bus services run throughout the metropolitan area.

Electric company
* Electric companies are public utilities.
* Electric companies use devices
  - patents
  - sags to cope with extraordinary power demands