New Delhi, June 17 -- India's installed power generation capacity has crossed 530 gigawatts (GW) and is expected to approach 600 GW next year as the country expands renewable energy, thermal power and energy storage infrastructure, Aadhar Raj, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Power, told ANI today.

"With this battery storage, we already are at right now more than 530 gigawatt of installed capacity. Next year we are looking at somewhere close to 600 is what we will have. And a major chunk coming from the batteries, energy security is in good and safe hands," Raj told ANI in an exclusive interview on the sidelines of the PHDCCI's event on Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS).

Raj said India's power sector is growing at more than 7-8...