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Biga power station

coal fired power station in Turkey

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ97640059 ↗
Source-derived summary

Biga power station (also known as Bekirli-1 or İçdaş Çelik Enerji or İÇDAŞ Değirmencik and different from nearby İÇDAŞ Biga-2 but owned by the same company) is a 405 MW coal-fired power station in Turkey in Değirmencik, Biga, in Çanakkale built in the early 21st century.

It is estimated that closing the plant by 2030, instead of when its licence ends in 2056, would prevent over 2000 premature deaths.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Biga power station” is coal fired power station in Turkey. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Biga, power and station, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2030, 2056, 2000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Biga, power and station is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “coal fired power station in Turkey” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q97640059. Authority coordinates are 40.444, 27.131. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2030, 2056 and 2000.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. 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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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Biga power station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Biga power station primary sources, Biga power station archive and Biga 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.

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  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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This entry incorporates text from “Biga 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.