(BHEL) has won orders worth Rs 3,368 crore from Chhattisgarh State Electricity Board for supplying and installing power equipments for its running and upcoming projects.

The orders envisage setting up of one unit of 500 mw at Korba West thermal power project and two units of 500 mw each at the upcoming Marwa thermal power project. These units will add 36 million units every day to the grid on commissioning.

Bhel's contract in the project would include design, engineering, manufacturing, supply, commissioning of steam turbines, generators and boilers.

The company has generated over 5 % more power in fiscal 2007-08, compared to the previous fiscal. During the year, its thermal, hydro, gas and nuclear sets registered a record generation of 454.6 billion units of electricity against 432.6 billion units in the year before, which constituted 73% of the total power generated in the country.