| Article ID: | iaor20165102 |
| Volume: | 46 |
| Issue: | 6 |
| Start Page Number: | 463 |
| End Page Number: | 464 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2016 |
| Journal: | Interfaces |
| Authors: | Tyagi Rajesh |
| Keywords: | practice |
This special issue presents a tutorial and five applications of operations research in the energy industry. The tutorial discusses the use of mixed‐complementarity problems for modeling energy policies. The applications include optimizing plant dispatch decisions in an electricity grid, managing oil and gas pipelines, securing cost‐effective coal supplies for power plants, and implementing inspection plans for energy‐efficiency programs at an electric utility.