Barrias, FernandoFaria, PedroVale, Zita2015-05-042015-05-042014-10-28http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/5886Demand Response has been taking over the years an extreme importance. There’s a lot of demand response programs, one of them proposed in this paper, using air conditioners that could increase the power quality and decrease the spent money in many ways like: infrastructures and customers energy bill reduction. This paper proposes a method and a study on how air conditioners could integrate demand response programs. The proposed method has been modelled as an energy resources management optimization problem. This paper presents two case studies, the first one with all costumers participating and second one with some of costumers. The results obtained for both case studies have been analyzed.engAir ConditionersDemand ResponseDirect Load ControlEnergy Resource Managementconference object