Lately, the use of gas turbines following the deregulation of the electricity supply industry has quickly become greater. The motivation for modeling gas turbines and their controllers is the need to interpret their impacts on distribution systems. Model predictive control (MPC) is used to damp the oscillation when the power distribution system is subjected to a disturbance. MPC is selected because it can explicitly handle the nonlinearities and constraints of many variables in a single control formulation. The IEEE 13 node power distribution system is employed to demonstrate the effectiveness of MPC to damp the oscillations of gas turbines. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.