Gus’s Solar in Florida
Gus’s Solar brings owner-operated solar installation to Florida homeowners 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 numbers straight off your actual utility bill, and tells you to take two weeks before you sign anything. Across Florida, from the Panhandle down through the peninsula, Gus monitors every system he installs and is the one who calls you when something is not producing right. As part of the Locally family, every Gus’s Solar job 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.
Why Florida Homeowners Choose Gus’s Solar
Florida’s solar market has attracted every kind of operator, and too many homeowners have learned the hard way what the difference is. Gus Petrakis founded Gus’s Solar in 2011 and has been locally owned since day one, with over 29 years of serving communities like yours. That is not a pop-up sales crew or a crew that rolls through town for the summer. It is a real shop with a published address, and an owner whose name is on the building.
Here is what that means when you call. A live person answers the phone, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Not a voicemail, not a ticketing queue, not a call center three states away. When Gus gives you a price, it is built off your actual utility bill, not a brochure estimate, and it is the number you pay, period. No signature wanted tonight, no pressure to decide before someone leaves your driveway. The math either makes sense or it does not, and Gus will tell you straight if solar is not the right move for your roof.
His own crew does the install, not a subcontractor he met that morning. Every technician is background-checked and uniformed, so you know who is on your roof before they get there. They flash every roof penetration properly, because Gus lives twenty minutes away and he is going to run into you again at the hardware store, which is the oldest accountability mechanism there is. The equipment is the same leading brands the national outfits pitch, Tesla, Enphase, SolarEdge, SunPower, Panasonic, Qcells, REC, Canadian Solar, JinkoSolar, and FranklinWH, but the difference is who stands behind it. Gus’s 90-Day Done Right Promise is guaranteed in writing on every solar job: if it is not right, he makes it right, and one call brings him back.
Florida’s heat, humidity, and hurricane exposure are hard on roof penetrations and electrical hardware. Gus knows which mounting systems hold up in coastal wind zones and which inverters struggle with our summer afternoon thunderstorms because he has been here long enough to see what fails. He monitors your production remotely, and when an alert pops up, he is the one who calls you, not an automated email you have to decipher.
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 Tuesday. 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, and any company that would publish all four could carry his name. That list is still the entire standard.
Every Gus’s Solar job across Florida carries the Locally promise stamped on it: 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. Gus lives by the L.O.C.A.L. values, Local roots, On time, Community first, Accountable, Loyal, because he would rather keep you for twenty years than win one big ticket. The Locally family does not sell solar. We sell the answer to the only question you actually ask when you are deciding whether to trust someone: are you actually local? With Gus’s Solar, you can answer that before you call, not after you have been burned.
Written by Gus Petrakis, Owner at Gus’s Solar, serving Florida since 2011.