Gary W. Martin
Co-Founder & CEO, SecondWatt
About Gary W. Martin
Gary W. Martin is co-founder and CEO of SecondWatt, a research and marketplace platform for power generation and data center electrical infrastructure. He is the editor of record for everything published here: the research pipeline assembles sources and produces a draft, and Gary edits every article by hand against the brief and the underlying primary sources — FERC dockets, EPA registers, NERC reports, OEM disclosures and filed earnings transcripts — before publishing it himself. Before SecondWatt he founded and ran PRO EDU, an education publishing company, where he built the editorial and production systems he now applies to power market research.
Areas of Expertise
- Power Equipment Markets
- Editorial Standards
- Secondary Market Procurement
- Data Center Infrastructure
Editorial Standards
Every article published under this byline follows the SecondWatt research methodology: each data point traces to a verifiable public source — U.S. federal regulators, grid operators, national laboratories, or OEM technical documentation — and editorial review is mandatory before publication. Pricing figures cite the four-tier framework in the Pricing Index, and technology comparisons run through the Power Intelligence Tool.
Published Articles (25)
- Proof of funds letters for large equipment purchases
- Adiabatic cooling and dry coolers: cutting data center water use
- Equipment broker chains: how each layer raises the price
- mtu generators for data centers: Series 4000 gas and diesel
- Synchronous condensers: grid support from retired generators
- Single-phase vs three-phase power for generators and data centers
- Natural gas power plants: types, equipment and how they run
- Reciprocating engine generators: gas engine sizes and efficiency
- 3 MW generators: ratings, models and sizing for data centers
- Combined heat and power for data centers: CHP and trigeneration
- Containerized generators: what's inside and what to check
- 1 MW generators: ratings, fuel use and what 1,000 kW powers
- Gas turbine balance of plant: what a package needs to run
- Peaker plants: what they are and which turbines run them
- Transformer lead times in 2026: what sets them and what helps
- E-houses for data centers and power blocks: what's inside
- Peak shaving for data centers: generators, batteries and rules
- Data center decommissioning: what to do with the power equipment
- Behind-the-meter power for data centers: what it changes
- Selling surplus power equipment: auction, dealer or intermediary
- Medium voltage switchgear for data centers: selecting a lineup
- How SecondWatt works, who pays it, and when not to use it
- AI Data Center Capex in 2026: Separate Spending from Deployable Power
- Power Procurement Under Changing Rules: A Decision Framework
- Power Generation Facility Rules: FERC and EPA in 2026
More From SecondWatt
Read the full article and report archive, browse model-level detail in the equipment marketplace, or see the wider editorial team. Background on the company and its coverage sits on the about page.