How to Use public utility in a Sentence

public utility

noun
  • Should patient health data be treated like a public utility?
    — O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Connecticut towns should have the right to form public utilities and build out their own local power systems.
    — Josh Elliott, Hartford Courant, 23 Feb. 2026
  • It should be governed and guarded like a public utility to ensure that it can’t be exploited.
    — O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The tariffs would also cover imports of garbage trucks, public utility trucks and school buses.
    — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The registry is a free public utility tool that lets people create a record of how their name and likeness may be used by AI.
    — Corbin Bolies, Variety, 29 June 2026
  • The city, its public utilities and Bexar County footed most of the cost, with the remainder coming from private donors.
    — Madison Iszler, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Like it or not, the era of regulated generation dominated by public utilities is largely a thing of the past.
    — David Blackmon, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • This would shackle a public utility with the cost of buying expensive, unneeded transmission lines.
    — Craig D. Rose, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Three years after a civil grand jury found a public utility was not charging a country club enough for water, the utility is still doing so, a new report found.
    — Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 26 June 2026
  • In this case, Charlotte wants to install and maintain public utilities such as a bus shelter or bench, utility poles and sidewalks on the diocese land.
    — Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 19 Dec. 2025
  • The sinkhole didn’t appear to be connected to any public utilities, so the organization bowed out, Krul said.
    — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 11 Feb. 2026
  • None are currently connected to public utilities.
    — Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2026
  • The reason for this is many lead lines run under private property, whereas a wastewater plant or other public utility infrastructure tends to be on public land.
    — CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Now 39 and a co-owner of the farm, Jake Schrader works a day job as a public utility foreman at Berkshire Gas.
    — Sophie Caldwell, CNBC, 28 Nov. 2025
  • At issue is a provision in state law that bans public utilities from sharing customer data unless it is requested as part of a law enforcement investigation.
    — Sacbee.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • If ultimately enacted, the state's public utility commission would evaluate the success of the program within three years.
    — Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Oct. 2025
  • State policymakers also have an important role to play because state public utility commissions set many of the policies that govern utilities.
    — Brian Deese, Foreign Affairs, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Our public utilities are too essential, and the stakes are too high, for Hoosiers to be in the dark about how an out-of-state, trillion-dollar Wall Street firm is profiting from their bills.
    — Matt Parr, Chicago Tribune, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Cities are primarily responsible for public safety, planning and zoning, and public utilities.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Among the largest ranchers are billionaires like Stan Kroenke and Rupert Murdoch, as well as mining companies and public utilities.
    — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 12 Jan. 2026
  • If the water and power are shut off during an emergency, for example, there’s a pump with a battery backup connected to the swimming pool so that water can be used without relying on public utilities.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 28 Jan. 2026
  • In addition, to avoid a sudden loss of tax revenues, Elliott said that public utilities could enter into a payment in lieu of tax agreement with their local municipality.
    — John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 20 June 2026
  • In a statement released this week, Jones framed the vote as out of step with Georgia voters and emblematic of broader concerns about corporate influence over public utilities.
    — Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2025
  • States’ public utilities commissions oversee the utility companies that distribute power to customers.
    — Barbara Kates-Garnick, The Conversation, 17 Dec. 2025
  • In recent years, police have sought data not just from public utilities, but from digital platforms and even neighborhood security cameras, prompting a larger discussion on whether and how such data should be shared.
    — Sacbee.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • That is why longtime advocates of public power want a local public utility to maximize development of in-town electric generation — to reduce those delivery charges.
    — Craig D. Rose, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The sale of a regulated public utility to an unregulated nonprofit required a legislative exemption.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Virginia’s three public utilities commissioners are appointed by the state legislature, but they’re seen by observers as relatively immune to partisan pressure.
    — Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 18 May 2026
  • Americans dominated not only the sugar industry but also public utilities, mining and tourism, which American organized crime came to control.
    — Joseph J. Gonzalez, The Conversation, 23 Mar. 2026
  • So far, Sharma said, $350 million of private investment has gone into the project, including covering the cost of public utilities like electricity and natural gas lines.
    — Dylan Lysen june 30, Kansas City Star, 30 June 2026

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