This case study explores the unique safety challenges facing South Plains Electric Cooperative during cotton gin harvest season in West Texas, where enormous seasonal power loads and highly combustible facility conditions made transformer overloads potentially catastrophic. It describes how deploying Ubicquia's UbiGrid® DTM+ monitors replaced unreliable interval-based estimates with live, real-time data — giving engineers the confidence to safely plan maintenance operations and proactively catch developing issues before they could escalate into fires or outages.