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The electric grid is going to be determined by what the power company provides. Industry has plenty of incentive to standardize that and they mostly do. Every
by imgabe 6y ago
The electric grid is going to be determined by what the power company provides. Industry has plenty of incentive to standardize that and they mostly do.
Every municipality (well, at least state, but usually county and sometimes city) does have the option to develop and enforce its own electric code. For the most part they've converged on a standard National Electric Code developed by an industry consortium, without any Federal requirements.
- pm90 6y ago> The electric grid is going to be determined by what the power company provides. Industry has plenty of incentive to standardize that and they mostly do. This has almost never happened without the threat (implicit or explicit) of regulation. The only time large corporations willingly standardize is when they have control over the entire market, and standards are a tool of cost cutting more than as a means of enabling cooperation with other companies.
- imgabe 6y agoNEMA, ANSI, IEC, ASTM, ASHRAE, I could go on and on. There tons and tons of standards independently developed by industry associations. Many of them later get adopted into law by various government, but the government is not forcing these to exist.