Centralized planning of the energy sector, now at the forefront of political debate with the "Green New Deal," has a century-old tradition in the United States.
It began with the United States Fuel Administration (USFA) in World War I, which formed a model for more extensive price and allocation regulation during World War II by the Petroleum Administration for War (PAW). After an abbreviated return to federalization during the Korean Conflict by the Petroleum Administration of Defense (PAD), special wartime planning with energy would not reemerge (such as during the Vietnam War).