just a small town girl living in a lonely world what did you learn about this outage? con-ed is apologizing for the major disruption. it will be months before new yorkers have answers as to what exactly went wrong. we know there was a failure of a transmission substation in western midtown, affecting five other substations putting a total of six networks the a loss of power but con-ed says the specific failure will have to be investigated. that means looking at all the pieces of equipment in all the substations. here is what con-ed has ruled out, though, athis the point. we have no indication at all that this was a physical attack. hottest weekdays.