Seattle Times staff reporter. Comcast says cable service should be restored to all television customers in Washington state by late Saturday night after an outage knocked out a number of TV channels earlier in the evening. Comcast service outage that started Saturday night was limiting cable-TV channels available to viewers. Problems in airing the pay-per-view Mayweather-Pacquiao boxing match also was frustrating some fight fans.
The average commercial electricity rate in Tucson is  11.26Â¢/kWh. This average (commercial) electricity rate in Tucson is 18.15% greater than the Arizona average rate of 9.53Â¢/kWh. The average (commercial) electricity rate in Tucson is 11.6% greater than the national average rate of 10.09Â¢/kWh.
The wholesale price of electricity skyrocketed to nearly $2 per kilowatt hour, more than 40 times the normal rate. The price hikes cascaded quickly down to consumers. Robert Thompson, who lives in the suburbs of Allentown, Pa., got a $1,250 bill for January.hile renewables are coming down in cost, they are still more expensive, said Russell Garwacki, manager of pricing design and research at Southern California Edison. The company is imposing a 10% price hike this year to catch up with increased costs in the past.