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Maura Adams
Northern Forest Center, Concord, NH 03301, USA

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Maura Adams is the Director of Community Investment at the Northern Forest Center, a New Hampshire-based nonprofit working to build a thriving and welcoming Northern Forest region sustained by innovation and environmental stewardship. She also developed and managed the Center's wood heat programming for 7 years (www.feelgoodheat.com) and has facilitated the innovative Bike Borderlands collaborative for 4 years (www.bikeborderlands.com). Previous work included campus sustainability at St. Paul's School and Harvard University and green building consulting for the Jordan Institute. Maura has a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master's in environmental management degree from the Yale School of the Environment. She lives in Deerfield, NH.

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Published: 09 April 2021 in Sustainability
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Within a shifting climate of renewable energy options, technology innovations in the energy sector are vital in combating fossil-fuel-driven climate change and economic growth. To enter this market dominated by fossil fuels, renewable energy innovations need to overcome significant barriers related to cost, relative advantages compared to fossil fuels, and policy incentive programs. A better understanding of the innovation diffusion of new technologies in establishing the renewable energy industry can aid policy makers in designing and implementing other renewable energy support programs and improving adoption rates within existing programs. This study assessed industry leaders’ perceptions through semi-structured interviews. We explored the innovation diffusion process of wood pellet residential heating technology, as well as policy needs and barriers within this industry that are hindering successful long-term diffusion and sustainability. We show that while there is high potential to the wood pellet industry in terms of local resources and overall advantages to fossil fuels, it can be difficult to achieve sustainable economic growth with current cost barriers and further policy programs and incentives are needed in addition to improved communication to reduce adoption barriers for wood pellet technology.

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Casey Olechnowicz; Jessica Leahy; Tian Guo; Emily Silver Huff; Cecilia Danks; Maura Adams. Industry Leaders’ Perceptions of Residential Wood Pellet Technology Diffusion in the Northeastern U.S. Sustainability 2021, 13, 4178 .

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Casey Olechnowicz, Jessica Leahy, Tian Guo, Emily Silver Huff, Cecilia Danks, Maura Adams. Industry Leaders’ Perceptions of Residential Wood Pellet Technology Diffusion in the Northeastern U.S. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (8):4178.

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Casey Olechnowicz; Jessica Leahy; Tian Guo; Emily Silver Huff; Cecilia Danks; Maura Adams. 2021. "Industry Leaders’ Perceptions of Residential Wood Pellet Technology Diffusion in the Northeastern U.S." Sustainability 13, no. 8: 4178.