Which district of Uttar Pradesh is called the energy capital of the state?

The correct answer is B, Sonbhadra. The district lies in the extreme south east, where the Singrauli coalfield, the Rihand reservoir and the hills meet. Coal at the pit head and water from the reservoir allowed station after station to be built there, among them Obra and Anpara in the state sector and the Singrauli and Rihand super thermal stations of NTPC, so the district alone accounts for a very large share of the state's generation and is called its energy capital.

Option A, Kanpur, is an industrial city with the Panki thermal station but nothing on that scale. Option C, Jhansi, has the Parichha thermal station and lies in the Bundelkhand solar belt. Option D, Gautam Buddh Nagar, has the NTPC Dadri station serving the National Capital Region. Sonbhadra is also described as the energy capital of India in popular writing, a phrase that should alert you to the answer.