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Originally Posted by mejunkhound
The EU harmonic requirements are a result of Europe having mostly government run power systems - easier for them to legislate on harmonics vs letting the free market fix the problem itself.
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I disagree. EU Regulations drive ever closer technical specifications in order to promote a cross-border electricity market, whilst at the same time forcing government run power systems to be privatised. I don't think there are any government run power systems left in the EU, but there are technical regulations despite that, so I don't see that these two issues are inter-dependant.
This is just the same as any other market. For example, there are EU regulations about car specifications, covering everything from emissions to lighting to safety etc, yet there are no government run car factories. You don't need things to be government run for them to be government regulated.