Gus’s Solar
Gus’s Solar installs and services residential solar systems for homeowners who want real numbers off their actual utility bill, not a sales script. As part of the Locally family, Gus Petrakis puts his own name on the truck, tells you to take two weeks before you sign anything, and is the one who calls you when your panels aren’t producing right. No out-of-state sales crew, no disappearing act after the paperwork.
What Gus’s Solar Is Known For
Gus started this shop in 2011, and he’s been locally owned since day one. That’s fourteen years of walking into the same hardware store, sponsoring the same youth teams, and knowing that if he does right by your neighbor, you’ll hear about it. The 90-Day Done Right Promise isn’t marketing language; it’s Gus’s signature on a piece of paper that says if something’s not right, one call brings him back. He’s made good on it.
The pricing works the way your grandfather would have done it. Gus sits down with your actual utility bill, pulls year-25 production numbers you can verify, and gives you a number that doesn’t change when the crew shows up. No “sign tonight” pressure, no phantom fees. The price quoted is the price charged, period. He’s been around long enough to know that a homeowner who feels pushed will tell everyone on the street, and he’s going to run into you again on a Saturday.
When you call, a live person answers. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Not a voicemail tree, not a ticketing portal, not somebody reading from a script in a call center three states away. Gus’s own background-checked, uniformed crew does the install, flashes every roof penetration, and doesn’t hand the work off to a sub whose name he doesn’t know. He works with the equipment brands that last: Tesla, Enphase, SolarEdge, SunPower, Panasonic, Qcells, REC, Canadian Solar, JinkoSolar, and FranklinWH. And when something goes wrong three years later, Gus is the one who calls you, not the other way around.
Part of the Locally Family
Locally started in 1997 when a retired county extension agent named Ward Selby got tired of hearing the same story: out-of-state plates, a quote that tripled at the door, and a phone number that stopped working. He wrote down what a homeowner could verify in five minutes: a local phone number a person answers, an address you can drive to, the owner’s name and face, and a license number you can look up. Gus Petrakis publishes all four. The L.O.C.A.L. code means something here: local roots in this county, on-time windows that hold, community-first hiring and buying, accountability with the owner’s name on the work, and the loyalty that comes from wanting your business for twenty years, not one big ticket. Every Locally company lives by the same promise: the person who answers the phone is the person who shows up, and the price he says on the phone is the price on the invoice. Gus wouldn’t have it any other way.
Written by Gus Petrakis, Owner at Gus’s Solar, serving local communities since 2011.