Gus’s Solar in Arizona
Gus’s Solar brings owner-operated solar installation to Arizona homeowners who are tired of the door-knocker parade. Gus Petrakis puts his own name on the truck, quotes your system off your actual utility bill, and tells you to take two weeks before you sign anything. Across Arizona, from the Phoenix valley to the high desert and down to the border counties, Gus monitors every system he installs and is the one who calls when something is not reading right. As part of the Locally family, every Gus’s Solar job carries the same guarantee: the owner’s name, a real address, a license you can look up, and a price that does not change between the phone and the invoice.
Why Arizona Homeowners Choose Gus’s Solar
Arizona solar buyers have seen the same script too many times. A crew with out-of-state plates knocks at dinner, quotes a number that sounds too good, and pushes for a signature tonight. Six months later the system is underproducing, the phone rings to voicemail, and the company that sold it has moved on to the next state. Gus Petrakis started Gus’s Solar in 2011 because he watched it happen to his own neighbors in Arizona and figured somebody ought to do the opposite.
Here is how that looks in practice. Gus builds your quote from the actual kilowatt-hours on your APS or SRP bill, not a brochure estimate that assumes your house matches some average. He shows you real year-25 production numbers, not the rosy scenario that sells panels. He hands you the quote and says take two weeks. Call your accountant, call your neighbor who went solar, drive past the shop and see if the truck is there. The price he says on the phone is the price on the invoice. No escalation, no “we found something unexpected on the roof,” no financing gotcha that balloons the cost.
Gus’s crew is his own, background-checked and uniformed, and they flash every roof penetration properly because Gus is the one who answers when you call about a leak. The phone is answered by a live person, 24 hours a day, not a ticketing queue and not a call center in another time zone. If something is not right, Gus’s 90-Day Done Right Promise means he comes back and makes it right, in writing on every job. He works with the equipment brands that last in Arizona’s heat: Tesla, Enphase, SolarEdge, SunPower, Panasonic, Qcells, REC, Canadian Solar, JinkoSolar, and FranklinWH. He does not hand your install to a sub you have never met. He is going to run into you at the hardware store on Saturday, which is the oldest accountability mechanism there is.
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, phone quote tripled at the door, number disconnected by morning. 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. Gus’s Solar carries that standard across Arizona. The L.O.C.A.L. code means local roots, not a call center three states away; on-time windows that hold; community-first hiring and buying; accountability with the owner’s name on the work; and the loyalty that comes from knowing we would rather keep you for twenty years than win one big ticket. Every Gus’s Solar installation is backed by the Locally family promise: the person who answers the phone is the person who shows up, and the price he says is the price you pay.
Written by Gus Petrakis, Owner at Gus’s Solar, serving Arizona since 2011.