Patent 7642756 was granted and assigned to Ansaldo Energia on January, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An electric power generating system connectable to a reconfigurable power distribution network, and wherein a number of alternators, driven by internal combustion engines running at different speeds ω1, ω2, . . . , ωn, supply alternating voltages to rectifiers (14) generating rectified voltages V(r1), V(r2), . . . , V(rn) which are maintained substantially equal.