Gus’s Solar in Georgia
Gus Petrakis puts his own name on the truck because he is the one who climbs up to check the flashing. Across Georgia, from the pine hills outside Augusta to the exurbs south of Atlanta, homeowners are tired of solar crews who quote one number on the phone, push a pen at the door, and vanish before the first utility bill shows the real math. Gus does the opposite. He builds your year-25 projection off your actual utility bill, tells you to take two weeks before you sign anything, and when something goes wrong, he is the one who calls you. As part of the Locally family, every Gus’s Solar job in Georgia carries our written promise: the owner’s name, a real address, and a license you can look up before you ever pick up the phone.
Why Georgia Homeowners Choose Gus’s Solar
Gus started this shop in 2011, and he has been locally owned since day one. That matters in Georgia, where the summer humidity cooks roof shingles and a bad penetration turns into a ceiling stain by October. Gus’s own crew does the install. They are background-checked, they wear uniforms, and you know who is on your roof before they get there. No subs. No handoffs. Gus flashes every penetration himself, and if he misses something, his 90-Day Done Right Promise is in writing on every job. One call brings him back.
The pricing works the same way. Gus quotes what you will actually pay, built off your actual bill, not a brochure estimate. No signature wanted tonight. No “this price expires when I leave.” The number you see is the number you pay, period. And when you call, a live person answers. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Not a voicemail, not a ticketing queue, not a call center in another time zone. Someone who knows where your county is.
Gus monitors your system after it goes live. That is the difference. National outfits close the file the morning the panels start producing. Gus watches the inverter data, and when a string drops offline or a panel starts underperforming, he is the one who calls you. He lives twenty minutes from the communities he serves. You will see him again at the hardware store. Ask anyone on your street.
The equipment is the same gear the big names use. Tesla, Enphase, SolarEdge, SunPower, Panasonic, Qcells, REC, Canadian Solar, JinkoSolar, FranklinWH. Gus installs it with his own hands, warranties his own work, and answers his own phone. That is why Georgia homeowners who have already been burned once call him the second time.
Backed by the Locally Family
Locally started in 1997 because 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, a phone number that stopped working. He wrote down what you could verify in five minutes. A local area code that a person answers. An address you can drive to. The owner’s name and face. A license number you can look up. Any company that publishes all four can carry our name.
Gus’s Solar meets that standard on every Georgia job. Our L.O.C.A.L. values code is not decoration. Local roots means an address in this state, not a call center three states away. On time means the window we give you is the window. Community first means we hire here and sponsor the team here. Accountable means Gus puts his name on the work. Loyal means we would rather keep you for twenty years than win one big ticket. 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. That is the Locally promise, and Gus Petrakis stands behind it.
Written by Gus Petrakis, Owner at Gus’s Solar, serving Georgia since 2011.