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facility that burns fossil fuels to produce electricity
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fossil-fuel power station

Summary

fossil-fuel power station ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (328 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • fossil-fuel power station is a type of thermal power station[2].
  • fossil-fuel power station's Commons category is recorded as Fossil fuel-fired power plants[3].
  • fossil-fuel power station's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Fossil fuel power stations[4].
  • fossil-fuel power station's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as power=plant[5].
  • fossil-fuel power station's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as plant:method=combustion[6].
  • fossil-fuel power station's contributing factor of is recorded as air pollution[7].
  • fossil-fuel power station's contributing factor of is recorded as global warming[8].
  • fossil-fuel power station's different from is recorded as thermal power generation[9].
  • fossil-fuel power station's different from is recorded as conventional power plant[10].
  • fossil-fuel power station's different from is recorded as coal-fired power station[11].
  • fossil-fuel power station's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Climate change[12].
  • fossil-fuel power station's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Energy[13].

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Definition and Type

fossil-fuel power station is a type of thermal power station[2].

Why It Matters

fossil-fuel power station ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (328 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 11d 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 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007539022405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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