As of November 1, 2006 the NB Electricity Market Rules were modified to incorporate Bid-Based Demand Response (BBDR) thereby allowing loads to bid in against generators for the supply of hourly balancing energy. Education of potential BBDR suppliers is important to NBSO. Customer-specific and group information and training sessions can be arranged via . Details on the BBDR service are contained in Market Procedure "MP-23 Bid-Based Demand Response".