Twenty-two years after the largest blackout in North American history, affecting eight states including New Jersey and the province of Ontario, another electricity crisis has taken hold of the Garden State.

“All in all because of that terrible event, we were able to create a much better, more resilient grid,” Zenon Christodoulou, a N.J. Board of Public Utilities commissioner, said during the board’s Aug. 13 meeting in Trenton.