A small utility in Seguin, Texas installed a complete monitoring and control system that rivals systems installed at much larger utilities to improve service Traditionally, small municipal electrical utilities like the one in the City of Seguin, Texas have believed that implementing a SCADA was simply out of reach, due to the perceived high initial costs, high licensing fees, and complexity of such systems. However, advancements in web-based SCADA systems have transformed the process of installing, configuring, and managing such systems to manage substation performance.