Gus’s Solar in South Carolina
Gus’s Solar brings owner-operated solar installation to homeowners across South Carolina who are tired of high-pressure sales crews and out-of-state outfits that disappear the morning after the paperwork is signed. Gus Petrakis puts his own name on the truck, quotes real year-25 savings 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 South Carolina carries our founding promise: the owner’s name is published, the address is local, and the price on the phone matches the price on the invoice. No surprises, no vanishing acts, just a neighbor who monitors your system and calls you when something looks off.
Why South Carolina Homeowners Choose Gus’s Solar
South Carolina homeowners between 50 and 70 have heard the same story too many times. A national crew knocks on the door with a tablet, quotes one number on the porch, and by the time the real invoice shows up the salesman is three states away and the “local office” is a rented mailbox. Gus Petrakis built his company to be the opposite of that. He’s been serving local communities for over 29 years, founded Gus’s Solar in 2011, and has been locally owned since day one. His shop has a published address, a license number you can look up, and his name is on the building.
When you call Gus’s Solar, a live person answers the phone. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No after-hours voicemail, no ticketing queue, no call center in another time zone. That live person can connect you directly to Gus, because he lives twenty minutes from the communities he serves and he answers his own cell. Ask anyone on your street who’s worked with him. He’ll be there himself, and if something’s not right, he’ll make it right. That’s the 90-Day Done Right Promise, guaranteed in writing on every solar job. If it’s not done right, Gus makes it right, and one call brings him back.
The crew that climbs your roof works for Gus, not a subcontractor he found that morning. They’re background-checked, uniformed, and you know who’s on your roof before they get there. They flash every roof penetration properly, and they don’t hand the work off to a sub. Gus’s team installs equipment from the industry’s leading brands: Tesla, Enphase, SolarEdge, SunPower, Panasonic, Qcells, REC, Canadian Solar, JinkoSolar, and FranklinWH. The pricing is upfront and no-hassle. The number you see is the number you pay, period. Gus builds the math off your actual utility bill, not a brochure estimate, and there’s no signature wanted tonight. Take two weeks. Talk to your accountant. Drive by the shop. That’s how confident he is that the numbers hold up.
Where national outfits vanish after the system goes live, Gus monitors your production and is the one who calls when something’s wrong. In a state where summer storms and hurricane season can stress any roof-mounted system, that ongoing relationship matters. You’re not chasing a 1-800 number when a panel underperforms or an inverter throws a code. You’re calling a neighbor who knows your roof and your system, because he was the one who installed it.
Backed by the Locally Family
Every Gus’s Solar installation in South Carolina carries the Locally family guarantee. We started in 1997 when Ward Selby, a retired county extension agent, got tired of hearing the same story: out-of-state trucks, phone quotes that tripled at the door, and numbers that stopped working when something went wrong. 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 that publishes all four can carry the Locally name. That list is still our entire standard. Gus Petrakis meets every one. When you choose Gus’s Solar, you’re choosing a company that lives by the L.O.C.A.L. values: Local roots, On time, Community first, Accountable, and Loyal. We’d rather keep you for twenty years than win one big ticket. That’s not a slogan. It’s how Gus runs his shop, and it’s why the Locally family stands behind him.
Written by the team at Locally, founded in 1997 to make “are you actually local?” a question you can answer before you call, not after you’ve been burned.