Albany, NY-A Pleasant Surprise Although Albany is the official capital of the state of New York, I've never really felt the influence of this remote upstate city. I live in New York City, and for me Manhattan has always been the unofficial capital of the state.
Electrical generator. 650 pages on this wiki. An electrical generator is a device that produces electrical energy from a mechanical energy source. The process is known as electricity generation.
Electrical generators found in power plants use water turbines, combustion engines, windmills, or other sources of mechanical energy to spin wire coils in strong magnetic fields, inducing an electric potential in the coils. A generator that provides alternating current power is called an alternator.