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fossil-fuel power station

facility that burns fossil fuels to produce electricity
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Summary

fossil-fuel power station ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (479 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: thermal power station[2]
  • Commons category: Fossil fuel-fired power stations[3]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Fossil fuel power stations[4]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: power=plant[5], plant:method=combustion[6]
  • Contributing factor of: air pollution[7], global warming[8]
  • Different from: thermal power generation[9], conventional power plant[10], coal-fired power station[11]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Climate change[12]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Energy[13]
  • P14692: 1180[14], 1327[15]
  • P14870: ont00000717[16]

Why It Matters

fossil-fuel power station has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 47 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6d ago · Pi bot bot · 2026-10-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Commons category → Fossil fuel-fired power stations
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ Commons category: Fossil fuel-fired power stations, Update P373 to avoid commons category redirect"
  2. 12d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Environment ontology id → 2000037
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'azb', 'bg', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'ha', 'he', 'id', 'ko', 'simple', 'sr', 't
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Environment ontology id: 2000037, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/143356981|fossil fuel power plant (#143356981)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/5484|Env"
  3. 24d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → 1180, 1327
    P14870 → ont00000717
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ P14870: ont00000717"
  4. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Contributing factor of → air pollution, global warming
    Subclass of → —
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Energy
    Aliases → —
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007539022405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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