Gus’s Solar in Wisconsin
Gus’s Solar brings owner-operated solar installation to homeowners across Wisconsin who are tired of high-pressure sales crews and out-of-state installers who vanish the morning after the paperwork is signed. Gus Petrakis puts his own name on the truck, quotes real year-25 numbers 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 Wisconsin carries the same 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, Gus is the one who calls you, not a ticketing queue three states away.
Why Wisconsin Homeowners Choose Gus’s Solar
Wisconsin homeowners between 50 and 70 have learned the hard way that a smooth phone quote means nothing when the crew at your door drives a truck with plates from somewhere you’ve never heard of. Gus Petrakis built Gus’s Solar to be the alternative to that story. He founded the company in 2011 and has been locally owned since day one, with over 29 years of serving communities like yours across the state.
Here’s how Gus works. He pulls up your actual utility bill, not a brochure estimate, and builds the math from there. The number you see is the number you pay, period. No hidden equipment upgrades, no “while we’re here” surprises. He gives you the quote in writing and tells you to take two weeks. Sleep on it. Ask your neighbor. Ask anyone on your street. Gus lives twenty minutes away from the people he serves, and he knows he’s going to run into you again at the hardware store, which is the oldest accountability mechanism there is.
Every crew member who sets foot on your roof is background-checked and uniformed. You know who is coming before they get there. Gus’s own crew handles the install, flashes every roof penetration properly, and does not hand the work off to a subcontractor you’ve never met. The equipment comes from brands you can research yourself: Tesla, Enphase, SolarEdge, SunPower, Panasonic, Qcells, REC, Canadian Solar, JinkoSolar, and FranklinWH. No proprietary black boxes, no equipment you can’t get a second opinion on.
The 90-Day Done Right Promise covers every solar job in writing. If it’s not right, Gus makes it right. One call brings him back. And that call gets answered by a live person, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. No after-hours voicemail, no ticketing portal, no call center in another time zone. When your monitoring system flags an issue at 9 PM on a Sunday, a person picks up who can reach Gus.
Gus monitors your system after install. He is the one who notices when production drops and the one who calls to figure out why. Where national outfits move on to the next territory, Gus is still here because this is where he lives and works.
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, quote tripled at the door, number disconnected by the time anything went wrong. He wrote down what a homeowner could actually 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 that publishes all four can carry the Locally name.
That standard still applies to every Gus’s Solar installation across Wisconsin. Gus publishes his name, his address, and his license. The person who answers the phone is connected to the person who shows up. The Locally family’s L.O.C.A.L. values, Local roots, On time, Community first, Accountable, Loyal, mean Gus hires here, buys here, and knows he’ll see you again on a Saturday. The Locally promise is stamped on every job: the owner answers the phone, and the price he says on the phone is the price on the invoice. No exceptions, no surprises, no vanishing acts.
Written by Gus Petrakis, Owner at Gus’s Solar, serving Wisconsin since 2011.