Gus’s Solar in New York
Gus’s Solar brings owner-operated solar installation to homeowners across New York who are tired of high-pressure sales crews and out-of-state outfits that vanish once the ink dries. As part of the Locally family, Gus Petrakis puts his own name on the truck, quotes real year-25 numbers straight off your actual utility bill, and tells you to take two weeks before you sign anything. From Long Island’s coastal communities to the Hudson Valley’s hillside towns and the rural stretches north of the Thruway, New York homeowners get a solar company that monitors your system after it goes live and calls you when something is not performing right. No ticketing queues, no call centers in other time zones, no disappearing act.
Why New York Homeowners Choose Gus’s Solar
New York’s solar market has attracted every national installer with a door-knocking script and a quota to hit. Gus Petrakis built his company to be the alternative to that whole model. He founded Gus’s Solar in 2011 and has kept it locally owned since day one, with over 29 years of serving communities like yours across the state. When you call, a live person answers the phone, 24 hours a day, not a voicemail tree and not a portal that sends your request into a black hole.
Gus’s 90-Day Done Right Promise is written on every solar job, not implied in a handshake. If something is not right, one call brings him back to make it right. His crew shows up in uniform, background-checked, and they are Gus’s own people, not subs hired off a list. They flash every roof penetration properly and do not hand the work off to someone you have never met. The pricing works the same way: the number you see is the number you pay, built off your actual utility bill, not a brochure estimate designed to get a signature tonight. Gus works with equipment from Tesla, Enphase, SolarEdge, SunPower, Panasonic, Qcells, REC, Canadian Solar, JinkoSolar, and FranklinWH, so your system is matched to your roof and your usage, not whatever inventory needs to move this quarter.
New York’s weather throws real tests at solar, from lake-effect snow off Erie and Ontario to the freeze-thaw cycles that work on flashing and sealants. Gus has seen what fails and what lasts, and he sizes systems for real production through gray January weeks, not just peak July afternoons. He will be there himself, here is his cell, and he lives twenty minutes from the communities he works in. Ask anyone on your street who had a national crew quote one price on the phone and another at the door, then stopped returning calls when the inverter threw a code. That is the exact story that made Gus put his name on the truck.
Backed by the Locally Family
Every Gus’s Solar job in New York carries the Locally guarantee: the owner’s name, a local address you can drive to, and a license number you can look up before you ever pick up the phone. The person who answers is the person who shows up, and the price he says on the phone is the price on the invoice. No charge for surprises, no renegotiation at the kitchen table. Locally started in 1997 when Ward Selby, a retired county extension agent, got tired of hearing neighbors burned by out-of-state trucks and disconnected numbers. He wrote down what a homeowner could verify in five minutes, and that list is still the entire standard. The word “Locally” is named for the only question this customer actually asks. Not a place, not a founder, not a virtue: the word they say out loud when they are deciding whether to trust you. Gus Petrakis answered that question by putting his name on the building.
Written by Gus Petrakis, Owner at Gus’s Solar, serving New York since 2011.