This kind of district heating is much more common in Europe, and fairly uncommon in the US
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Electric and gas utilities in most of the US are private for-profit enterprises subject to state regulation. There is a patchwork of municipal utilities as well, but they’re a much smaller part of it. Some areas have fairly extreme examples of regulatory capture, where the regulators are more or less working for the for-profit utilities.
Water utilities are mostly municipal, though a few are privately owned.