For decades, electricity planners have urged an expansion of the high-voltage transmission network. Deregulation was supposed to provide incentives to build more lines. It really did not. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission devised a bizarre plan that did encourage a lot of spending, but obviously not enough, despite over-the-top economic incentives. The electric industry boasts about how much it has increased transmission spending. So, where are we? The USA has roughly 200,000 miles of high-voltage transmission in place. The Department of…