This book describes the latest microeconomic concepts and operations research (OR) techniques needed to comprehend the design and operation of power markets, as well as the actions of their agents: producers, consumers, operators, and regulators. This is critical when it comes to addressing a...

Introduction and Motivation -- Optimality and Complementarity -- Some Microeconomic Principles -- Equilibria and Complementarity Problems -- Variational Inequality Problems -- Optimization Problems Constrained by Optimization Problems -- Equilibrium Problems with Equilibrium Constraints --...

Relaxation and Decomposition -- Simplifying via Reformulation, Approximation, and Relaxation -- Approximating and Relaxing Optimization Problems -- Learning-Assisted Relaxations and Approximations -- Solving Optimization Problems with Complicating Variables -- Solving Optimization Problems via...

Demand response programmes are seen as one of the contributing solutions to the challenges posed to power systems by the large-scale integration of renewable power sources, mostly due to their intermittent and stochastic nature. Among demand response programmes, real-time pricing schemes for...