Overall Discussion of Main Findings Throughout Book

In the triple-bottom-line (environment, economic, and human) sustainable development (sustainability) philosophy, claims of greenwashing and virtue-signalling are prevalent as organisations make efforts to enhance their sustainable development status. A clear resolution to address these claims is to objectively measure, and report on, the outcomes of sustainability efforts. In the environmental realm, power quality measurements carried out on renewable energy generators found significant short-term output variations, particularly in wind turbine installations. The variations are contributing to disappointing energy benchmark results. Energy storage efforts need to be ramped up to allow renewables to compete with the quality and availability of traditional, fossil-fuel driven, power sources. Hydroelectric generators were found to have satisfactory, stable, power outputs, with solar PV outputs also more stable than wind turbine generators. Hydroelectric generators are considered to be one of the best renewable energy sources. In the economic realm, the neoclassical continuous growth economic model is unsustainable on a finite planet with finite resources. One potential sustainable economic model alternative is the steady-state model, where profit is still desirable, but organisational operations respect ecological limits. In the human (social) realm, it was found that cohorts of people were unconsidered/disrespected in many decision-making processes. Due to the interconnectedness of the three sustainability realms, disrespect for cohorts of human beings negatively affects the natural environment (climate change, global warming).