Not arguing in favor of US but how can you compare the size of these small countries with US size in terms of distributing energy?
Whether we talk about a union of 320M as the US or a union of 510M as the EU, or whether we talk about a state like Michigan with 9M inhabitants or a nation like Sweden with 10M hardly matters. There are roads, electrical grids and similar infrastructure everywhere in the modern world.
It's not the distribution that's the problem. It's political will.