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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. This
by 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.