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Power System Stability in the Deregulated Environment Ibrahim El-Amin Jamil Bakhashwain M. Abido King Fahd University of Petroleum Minerals Dhahran 31261 Saudi Arabia e-mail: imelamin@kfupm.edu.sa ABSTRACT The deregulation of power systems has brought several new entities in the electricity market place. There is need to assess the impact of Independent Power Producers (IPP), Non-Utility Generators (NUG) and Distributed Generators (DG) on system operation and stability. This paper is concerned with the problems related to system security and stability resulting from the increased proliferation of DG. The paper presents an up-to-date survey on the impact of DG on system stability. This paper focuses particularly on the DG-grid connection strength. This is done in relation to wind turbine and generators because of the wide application of wind energy into the system Keywords: Distributed Generators, system stability, DG , wind generators, fuel cells. INTRODUCTION The electric power industry has been dominated by large utilities that had an overall authority over all activities in generation, transmission and distribution of power within its domain of operation. Such utilities have often been referred to as vertically integrated utilities. Such utilities served as the only electricity provider in the region. It is responsible about the planning and operation of the power system according to certain criteria and policies. The basic objective of the operator in such vertically integrated utilities would be to maintain reliable and uninterrupted services to the load. The reliability of the system is composed of two aspects; adequacy and security. System adequacy is defined as ability to supply the energy requirements of the system taking into account planned and unplanned outages of the electrical components. System security is defined as the ability to withstand sudden disturbances without causing major blackouts and interruptions. System security is made of st