Gus’s Solar in Minnesota
Gus’s Solar brings owner-operated solar installation to Minnesota homeowners who are tired of high-pressure sales crews and out-of-state trucks that disappear the morning after the panels go up. Gus Petrakis puts his own name on every truck, quotes real year-25 numbers straight off your actual utility bill, and tells you to take two weeks before you sign anything. Across Minnesota, from the Red River Valley to the Driftless Area, homeowners get the same promise: a live person answers the phone 24/7, the crew that shows up is background-checked and uniformed, and Gus himself monitors your system long after the install is done. As part of the Locally family, every Gus’s Solar job in Minnesota carries our founding guarantee - the owner’s name, a real address, and a license you can look up before you ever make the call.
Why Minnesota Homeowners Choose Gus’s Solar
Minnesota’s solar market has attracted every kind of operator, and by now plenty of homeowners have opened the door to a smiling rep who quoted one number on the phone and another on the porch, then handed the job off to a subcontractor whose name they never got. Gus Petrakis built his company the opposite way. He started Gus’s Solar in 2011, locally owned since day one, and over 29 years in the trade he has learned that the only quote that matters is the one built off your actual utility bill, not a brochure estimate.
Here’s what that looks like in practice. When you call Gus’s Solar, a live person answers - no after-hours voicemail, no ticketing queue, no call center three states away. Gus shows up himself to walk your roof, explains the math in plain language, and gives you his cell. The price he says is the price on the invoice, period. His own crew handles every install, flashes every roof penetration properly, and never hands your house off to a stranger. Every job carries the 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing: if it’s not right, Gus makes it right, and one call brings him back.
Minnesota’s weather puts real demands on a solar system - heavy snow loads, freeze-thaw cycles, and those brutal January weeks when production dips and your payback math gets tested. Gus accounts for all of it in his year-25 projections, using equipment from Tesla, Enphase, SolarEdge, SunPower, Panasonic, Qcells, REC, Canadian Solar, JinkoSolar, and FranklinWH. He is not going to oversell you on capacity you don’t need, because he is going to run into you at the hardware store, and that 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 plates, a quote that tripled at the door, and a phone number that stopped working. 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 - and any company that would publish all four could carry his name. That list is still the entire standard.
Gus’s Solar meets it completely. Gus publishes his name, his shop address, and his license. 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. Our L.O.C.A.L. values code means local roots in the county where you live, on-time windows we actually keep, community-first hiring and buying, accountability with the owner’s name on the work, and the loyalty that comes from wanting your business for twenty years, not one big ticket. When you choose Gus’s Solar in Minnesota, you are choosing a company that answers “are you actually local?” before you even have to ask.
Written by Gus Petrakis, Owner at Gus’s Solar, serving Minnesota as a Locally family company since 2011.