NORTH AMERICAN ELECTRIC RELIABILITY COUNCILPrinceton Forrestal Village116-390 Village BoulevardPrinceton, New Jersey 08540-5731 August 14, 2003 Power Outages – Announcement Starting at about 4:15 PM EDT, major losses of electric load occurred in the northeastern U.S. and Canada in the Eastern Interconnection.No cause is known at present, but the outages do not appear to be the result of a terrorist attack.The areas most affected center around the Great Lakes plus New York City, northern New Jersey and parts of New England. We do not know if these blackouts are related for sure, but it is likely.Con Edison in New York lost...