[sandpaper26]

It looks like we're working off fundamentally different definitions of central planning, so of course we disagree. Central planning, in my vernacular, does not at all imply government control. It simply means that most decisions are made by some sort of central authority and executed by decentralized agents, rather than plans being made by the agents themselves. This is how most non-franchise businesses operate.

If you require central planning to retain an element of planning by the government in your definition, then I agree, energy is not a good example of this.