Gus’s Solar in West Virginia
Gus’s Solar brings owner-operated solar installation to homeowners across West Virginia who are tired of high-pressure sales crews and out-of-state installers who vanish once the panels go up. Gus Petrakis puts his own name on every 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 West Virginia carries our founding promise: 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. No voicemail mazes, no call centers three states away, no quote that changes when the truck pulls in.
Why West Virginia Homeowners Choose Gus’s Solar
West Virginia homeowners between 50 and 70 have learned the hard way that a low quote on the phone often turns into something else entirely once the salesperson is standing in your living room. Gus Petrakis built his business the opposite way. He’ll sit at your kitchen table, spread out your actual utility bills, and show you the math on a 25-year timeline. The number he says is the number you pay. Period.
It helps that Gus has been at this since 2011, locally owned every single day, with over 29 years of serving communities like yours. His 90-Day Done Right Promise isn’t a slogan on a brochure; it’s in writing on every solar job, and one call brings Gus back if something’s not right. His technicians are background-checked, uniformed, and his own crew. They flash every roof penetration properly. They don’t hand your job off to a sub you’ve never met.
The phone gets answered by a live person, 24 hours a day. Not a ticketing portal, not a queue that dumps you to a call center somewhere you can’t find on a map. And when Gus says take two weeks to think it over, he means it. No signature wanted tonight. He’d rather you ask around the hardware store and come back sure than sign pressured and regret it later. That is the kind of accountability that comes from putting your own name on the building.
Gus works with equipment brands you have heard of for good reason: Tesla, Enphase, SolarEdge, SunPower, Panasonic, Qcells, REC, Canadian Solar, JinkoSolar, and FranklinWH. He monitors your system after it goes live, and he is the one who calls you when something looks off. That is the difference between an owner who lives twenty minutes away and a national outfit whose next stop is three counties over.
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 the morning after. 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. Any company that would publish all four could carry his name. That list is still the entire standard.
Every Gus’s Solar job across West Virginia lives by our L.O.C.A.L. values: real roots in the communities we serve, showing up in the window we promised, hiring and buying here, putting the owner’s name on the work, and building loyalty over decades instead of chasing one big ticket. Gus Petrakis answers to that code, and so do we.
Written by Gus Petrakis, Owner at Gus’s Solar, serving West Virginia as part of the Locally family since 2011.