If you haven't heard of EnergiSystems, you are not alone. It is a local business that, though very successful, is almost unknown. EnergiSystems is a business that builds gas stations and services them, and builds carwashes and services them. Owner, Rob Gustafson works locally and all throughout Montana in a construction business that is unlike any other. A construction that is critical, yet mostly unseen when everything is done. EnergiSystems install the fuel tanks underground, the pumps, and everything from the time it is put into the ground to point of sale, the card reader, and tank monitoring. His systems are called Wayne distributors, which Rob explains is a brand, like Ford and Chevy for fuel stations. The Phillips 66 corner station is a Wayne system.

I was curious how accurate the gas pumps are for consumers. Are we really getting the premium that we pay for when they all come from the same nozzle? Rob informed me, "They are extremely accurate and carefully monitored. You are always getting what you pay for." He explained "We calibrate them so they are perfect, then the state comes behind and makes sure. The tag on each pump is the last time the state checked them. If there is ever an error, it is always in the consumer's favor."

Rob and his family moved to Montana from St. Louis Missouri in 2009, after establishing his business in Montana, he, his wife Sarah Gustafson, and their children moved to Roundup in 2011. He learned the fuel installation and repair business from his father who retired from the career when the pumps went to digital card readers. Robs father worked full-service fuel stations when he was a young man, and gained a reputation as someone who could fix the fuel systems, which turned into a full-time business. Rob grew up learning the business, and has expanded on the knowledge from his father, to conform to the new technology involved in fuel stations.

EnergiSystems also runs heavy equipment. They have a 12,000 square foot warehouse in Billings, as well as shops in Roundup, Bozeman, and Kalispell. At the Roundup shop, the team builds things needed for construction pumps, footing cages for rebar, and anything they need to build for gas stations and car washes, as well as keeping some construction equipment here. Because they do service work all over Montana, they keep several locations for the heavy equipment so they do not have to haul everything. EnergiSystems has over seven hundred customers and around fifty employees.

Currently, using only the shop, Rob shares the Roundup retail space on Main Street with Earth Sciences Foundation featured in the June 15th edition of the Roundup Record Tribune & Winnett Times. The Earth Sciences Foundation is doing local dinosaur digs, and providing material that will become part of the Roundup Museum.