SUMMARYIn Taiwan, the sales revenues of power generation from incinerator power plants with heat recovery power generation sold to the power company were up to NT$4.5bn, making the incinerator power generation play an important role in reduction of impact on environment and substitution of energy in power generation. Studying the dynamic behavior of incinerator power systems under output power variation is thus an essential task for the scheduling, operation, and expansion of incinerator power plants, such as, for cooperating with a scheduling program based on pricing signals to capture energy trading timing economically and to operate the incinerator power system securely. Although there are many studies on incinerator power generation, they seldom discuss the power generation system characteristics. In this paper, mathematical dynamic models for a distributed incinerator power system were derived and implemented using Matlab/Simulink, and dynamic characteristics of the system were further simulated and discussed under two operating modes: increment and decrement of power generation. These developed models can provide dynamic characteristics for these two modes, serving as an important analytic tool for cooperating with a scheduling program based on pricing signals to capture energy trading timing economically and to operate the incinerator power system securely. Copyright