Gus’s Solar in Ohio
Gus’s Solar brings owner-operated solar installation to homeowners across Ohio who are tired of high-pressure sales crews and out-of-state paperwork mills. Gus Petrakis puts his own name on the truck, builds every quote off your actual utility bill, and tells you to take two weeks before you sign anything. As part of the Locally family, every Gus’s Solar job in Ohio carries our trademarked 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 price Gus says is the price on the invoice, and when something goes wrong, he’s the one who calls you, not a ticketing queue three time zones away.
Why Ohio Homeowners Choose Gus’s Solar
Ohio homeowners between 50 and 70 have learned the hard way what a national solar outfit looks like: a quote on the phone that somehow doubles at the kitchen table, a signature wanted tonight, and a crew that vanishes the morning after the panels go live. Gus Petrakis built Gus’s Solar to be the opposite of that. He’s been at this since 2011, locally owned since day one, and he’s not going anywhere because this is where he lives too.
Here’s how Gus works. He shows up himself, pulls your actual utility bills, and quotes real year-25 production numbers, not brochure estimates. The price he gives you is the price you pay, period. No surprise add-ons, no escalation clauses buried in page fourteen. He’ll tell you straight if solar doesn’t pencil out for your roof or your usage, and he’ll tell you to take two weeks to think it over. That’s not a sales tactic. That’s a man who knows he’s going to see you again at the hardware store.
Every install is done by Gus’s own background-checked, uniformed crew, not handed off to a sub you’ve never met. They flash every roof penetration properly, they clean up after themselves, and they don’t leave until Gus has walked the job himself. The equipment comes from brands you’ve actually heard of: Tesla, Enphase, SolarEdge, SunPower, Panasonic, Qcells, REC, Canadian Solar, JinkoSolar, and FranklinWH. And every job carries the 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If it’s not right, Gus makes it right. One call brings him back.
The phone gets answered by a live person, 24 hours a day. No after-hours voicemail, no portal to file a ticket, no call center in another state. When your monitoring shows a production drop at 9 PM on a Sunday, somebody picks up who can actually reach Gus. Because he lives twenty minutes away, not three states away.
Backed by 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 truck, tripled quote, disconnected number. 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. Any company willing to publish all four could carry his name. That list is still the entire standard.
Gus’s Solar meets that standard on every Ohio job. The L.O.C.A.L. values code is stamped on every interaction: Local roots, On time, Community first, Accountable, Loyal. Gus would rather keep you for twenty years than win one big ticket. That’s why the Locally family stands behind him. Ask anyone on your street.
Written by Gus Petrakis, Owner at Gus’s Solar, serving Ohio homeowners since 2011.