MODELING AND SIMULATION OF SELECTED DISTRIBUTED GENERATION SOURCES AND THEIR ASSESSMENT By Ju-chirl Park Consumers want an economical and uninterrupted electric power. It is crucial to the industrial consumers and wholesalers who have to pay the penalty for a blackout, if power is disconnected for any reason. Recently, distributed generation (DG) has become an attractive method of providing electricity to consumers and retailers. In addition, from the viewpoint of economic feasibility, the costs of installing the generators and producing the electricity can be comparatively inexpensive using the DG method. Furthermore, electrical or thermal efficiency can also be improved if the utilities use co-generation or a combined heat cycle. In this thesis, the models of small turbine generators (i.e. a combustion turbine, a diesel engine, etc), that are used for distributed generation will be obtained as dynamic. Also, the detailed synchronous machine and the excitation system model are obtained for the standard simulation. The simulation will be performed with an infinite bus system model. The synchronous machine is connected with a local load in order to develop the terminal voltage, avoiding the differentiation. In order to use fuel cells and solar cells, which are new forms of technology, have the potential to reduce costs, and can be used for the DG in the near future, the inverter (DC-AC) model is necessary. In this thesis, the power delivered to voltage sources is examined with the DC current.