A steam turbine driven generator, sometimes known as “turbo generators”, can be best explained by understanding a steam turbine and a generator separately. A steam turbine is a steam-driven driver. Water is heated at an extremely high temperature to convert it into steam. The energy created by highly pressurized steam is converted to mechanical energy which rotates the blades in the steam turbine. And a generator is best described as a machine by which mechanical energy is transformed into electrical energy. The coiled wires used in a generator spin inside a magnetic field which causes an electric current to flow through the wire.