Does anyone know if law mandates such largescale projects to co-operate with research? If one is going to make, install, use and monitor (within the same system

Does anyone know if law mandates such largescale projects to co-operate with research? If one is going to make, install, use and monitor (within the same system, and thus using exactly the same metrics) huge amounts of batteries, it would seem useful to not make them all identical, but to arrange a hypercube of production parameters (concentrations of chemicals, purity levels, tolerances, ...) so that we can learn the most cost efficient utilization? In the lab people experiment with sigma aldrich grade materials, but the cost efficiency is also a function of the cost of purification grade, manufacturing tolerances, ...