Gus’s Solar in Kentucky
Gus’s Solar brings owner-operated solar installation to Kentucky homeowners who are tired of wondering who will actually show up on their roof. Gus Petrakis puts his own name on every truck, quotes your system off your real utility bill, and tells you to take two weeks before you sign anything. Across Kentucky, from the rolling Bluegrass to the western coal fields, Gus monitors every system he installs and is the one who calls when something needs attention. As part of the Locally family, every Gus’s Solar job in Kentucky carries the same promise: the owner’s name, a local address, and a license you can look up before you ever pick up the phone.
Why Kentucky Homeowners Choose Gus’s Solar
Kentucky homeowners between 50 and 70 have heard the pitch before. A national crew knocks on the door, quotes a price that somehow doubles by the time the paperwork comes out, and three months later the number goes to a call center in Arizona. Gus Petrakis built Gus’s Solar to be the opposite of that.
Here’s how it works. Gus pulls your actual utility bill, runs real year-25 production numbers, and gives you a price that does not change. No surprise equipment upgrades, no “while we’re up there” add-ons. The number you see is the number you pay, period. And he does not want your signature tonight. Take two weeks. Show it to your accountant, your neighbor, your son-in-law who works in finance. Gus lives twenty minutes away from the folks he serves. He is going to see you again at the hardware store, which is the oldest accountability mechanism there is.
Every installer who sets foot on your roof is background-checked, uniformed, and on Gus’s own crew. He does not hand your job to a subcontractor who may or may not flash the roof penetrations properly. Gus’s crew does the work, and Gus checks it himself. The 90-Day Done Right Promise covers every solar job in writing. If it is not right, Gus makes it right. One call brings him back.
When you call, a live person answers. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No voicemail maze, no ticketing portal, no “your call is important to us” loop. Gus chose equipment from Tesla, Enphase, SolarEdge, SunPower, Panasonic, Qcells, REC, Canadian Solar, JinkoSolar, and FranklinWH because they stand behind their products the same way he stands behind his installs. Over 29 years in local service, founded in 2011, locally owned since day one. That is not a pop-up sales crew. That is a real shop with a published address and an owner whose name is on the building.
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 morning. He wrote down what a homeowner could verify in five minutes. Local phone number. Address you can drive to. Owner’s name and face. License number you can look up. Any company that publishes all four can carry the Locally name.
The L.O.C.A.L. values code still governs every member. Local roots, not a call center three states away. On time, with a window you can set your watch by. Community first, hiring and buying where we work. Accountable, with the owner answering the phone and putting his name on the work. Loyal, keeping you for twenty years instead of chasing one big ticket. Gus’s Solar lives those values on every Kentucky roof. The mission is simple: make “are you actually local?” a question you can answer before you call, not after you have been burned.
Written by Gus Petrakis, Owner at Gus’s Solar, serving Kentucky homeowners since 2011.