Covers the latest practices, challenges and theoretical advancements in the domain of balancing economic efficiency and operation risk mitigation This book examines both system operation and market operation perspectives, focusing on the interaction between the two. It incorporates up-to-date field experiences, presents challenges, and summarizes the latest theoretic advancements to address those challenges. The book is divided into four parts. The first part deals with the fundamentals of integrated system and market operations, including market power mitigation, market efficiency evaluation, and the implications of operation practices in energy markets. The second part discusses developing technologies to strengthen the use of the grid in energy markets. System volatility and economic impact introduced by the intermittency of wind and solar generation are also addressed. The third part focuses on stochastic applications, exploring new approaches of handling uncertainty in Security Constrained Unit Commitment (SCUC) as well as the reserves needed for power system operation. The fourth part provides ongoing efforts of utilizing transmission facilities to improve market efficiency, via transmission topology control, transmission switching, transmission outage scheduling, and advanced transmission technologies. Besides the state-of-the-art review and discussion on the domain of balancing economic efficiency and operation risk mitigation, this book: . Describes a new approach for mass market demand response management, and introduces new criteria to improve system performance with large scale variable generation additions. Reviews mathematic models and solution methods of SCUC to help address challenges posed by increased operational uncertainties with high-penetration of renewable resources. Presents a planning framework to account for the value of operational flexibility in transmission planning and to provide market mechanism for risk sharing Power Grid Operations in a Market Environment: Economic Efficiency and Risk Mitigation is a timely reference for power engineers and researchers, electricity market traders and analysts, and market designers.;Integrated System and Market Operation. Balance Economic Efficiency and Operation Risk Mitigation / Hong Chen, Jianwei Liu -- Mitigate Market Power to Improve Market Efficiency / Ross Baldick -- Under Smart Grid Era. Mass Market Demand Response Management for the Smart Grid / Alex D Papalexopoulos -- Improve System Performance with Large-Scale Variable Generation Addition / Yuri V Makarov, Pavel V Etingov, Pengwei Du -- Stochastic Applications. Security-Constrained Unit Commitment with Uncertainties / Lei Wu, Mohammad Shahidehpour -- Day-Ahead Scheduling: Reserve Determination and Valuation / Ruiwei Jiang, Antonio J Conejo, Jianhui Wang -- Harness Transmission Flexibility. Improved Market Efficiency Via Transmission Switching and Outage Evaluation in System Operations / Kwok W Cheung, Jun Wu -- Toward Valuing Flexibility in Transmission Planning / Chin Yen Tee, Marija D Ili.