The 4th IEA Clean Coal Center Workshop on Cofiring Biomass with Coal will be held on the Penn State Campus at the Nittany Lion Inn on November 5-6, 2014. The call for abstracts is open and submissions must be received by April 30, 2014. All abstracts must be submitted through the workshop website [1].

The workshop, which is sponsored in part by the Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment and the EMS Energy Institute, will include a dinner at the Nittany Lion Inn on November 4 followed by one and a half days of presentations. Presentations will focus on the following topics:

• Policies that promote biomass cofiring
• Co-gasification of biomass
• Sustainability
• Biomass trade and logistics
• Use of residues
• Cofiring or unit conversion?

For more information on the workshop or abstract requirements, visit the website [1].