Electricity transmission in the US is privatized and handled by several hundred individual companies [1].<p>These associate into regional councils that are obviously regional in focus. The NERC, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation sets standards for these councils.<p>Barring any large-scale government initiative, all planning is from the bottom-up, so that's why we're so bad at planning in the large.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.nerc.net/eroregistration/currentmembers.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://www.nerc.net/eroregistration/currentmembers.aspx</a>