Berto Martins is currently Deputy Director for Energy Markets at EDP S.A.

He is 51 years old, born and raised in Lisbon but with an academic degree completed at the Oporto University in 1990.

In this same year he joined EDP to work at the National Dispatch and after some years in this functions moved to the System Optimization and Commercial Operations until 2002, when he went to EDP’s team to prepare the liberalization process in Portugal. 

The Energy Markets Division is responsible for the management of EDP´s Generation portfolio in the Iberian Market. These tasks include the Short/Medium Term Planning, Outages coordination and bidding strategy on the energy and ancillary services markets.  

He is also responsible for the real-time Dispatch and coordination with the Portuguese System Operator (REN).