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Energy and Power Engineering, 2012, 4, 274-282 /10.4236/epe.2012.44037 Published Online July 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/epe) Evaluation of Operating Domains in Power Systems Mohamed A. El-Kady, Yasir A. Alturki, Mamdooh S. Al-Saud SEC Chair in Power System Reliability and Security, King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA Email: melkady@.sa Received April 29, 2012; revised May 31, 2012; accepted June 17, 2012 ABSTRACT This paper presents the results of a recent major industry-supported study with the aim to provide power system opera- tors with more meaningful and effective means to quickly identify feasible operating boundaries as well as more flexi- bility to select alternate operating scenarios. In this regard, the paper outlines the main theoretical basis and computa- tional framework for the development of innovative computerized schemes capable of identifying and processing vari- ous system integrity domains. The novel framework allows system operators to determine—in a fast and reliable man- ner—the most favorable operating scenarios which maintain system security, reliability and operating performance quality. For demonstration purposes, and without loss of generality, an emphasis is given to the dynamic system secu- rity problem where the Transient Energy Function (TEF) method is used to define quantitative measures of the level (degree) of system security for a given operating scenario. Nonetheless, the framework presented is applicable quite as well to other system performance functions and criteria that may be considered. A demonstrative application is pre- sented for a 9-bus benchmark system, widely used in the literature. In addition, a practical application is also presented for the Saudi