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Yermarus Thermal Power Station

building in India

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ19899118 ↗
Source-derived summary

Yermarus Thermal Power Station is a coal-based thermal power plant located in Yermarus village in Raichur district, Karnataka.

History

The power plant is owned and operated by the Karnataka Power Corporation. This is India's first 800 MW super critical thermal power plant and Bharat Heavy Electricals is the EPC contractor for this power project.

Capacity

The installed capacity of the power plant in 1600 MW (2×800 MW).

Editorial summary

“Yermarus Thermal Power Station” enters the record as building in India. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Yermarus, Thermal and Power can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1600—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Yermarus, Thermal and Power.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Yermarus Thermal Power Station” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Yermarus, Thermal and Power provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19899118. Authority coordinates are 16.291, 77.353. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1600.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Yermarus Thermal Power Station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Yermarus Thermal Power Station primary sources, Yermarus Thermal Power Station archive and Yermarus research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “Yermarus Thermal Power Station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.