BHEL has commissioned the first renovated 60 MW unit of NHPC’s 180 MW Baira Siul hydro project in Chamba district, Himachal Pradesh. Baira Siul is NHPC’s first hydro station to have been taken up for comprehensive renovation and modernisation (R&M). The R&M of the other two units is at various stages of execution. BHEL’s scope of work includes design, manufacture, supply, replacement and commissioning of critical parts of turbines and auxiliaries, governors, generators, and control and monitoring.