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If you’ve been sitting on a quote from a door-knocker who needed an answer by 9 PM, or an estimate from an outfit whose sales rep lives three states away, you’re in the right place. Gus’s Solar handles Solar Panel Installation - Los Angeles zip codes 90010 through 90013, plus the surrounding South LA neighborhoods, and we show up when we say we will. Call (877) 550-6892 and Gus Petrakis answers. Not a call center. Not a ticket queue. The owner.
What happens when you call
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A real person answersNo phone trees - you reach a local pro.
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You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched.
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A background-checked tech heads outLicensed & insured, dispatched right away.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Why Los Angeles Homeowners Choose Gus’s Solar
Gus Petrakis has had his name on the business since 2011, and his phone number is published right on the truck. That’s the job. Los Angeles homeowners in Koreatown, South LA, Baldwin Hills, and West Adams call us because they want an installer who isn’t going to vanish the morning after the system goes live. We’re the crew your neighbor waves to at the hardware store, not a pop-up sales team leapfrogging through the 90011 zip code one summer and gone the next.
Every job carries the 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If something isn’t right, one call brings Gus back. That’s the whole warranty in one sentence. Our crews are background-checked, uniformed, and they’re our own people, not subs we’ve never met. We quote real numbers off your actual LADWP bill, not a brochure estimate, and we’re happy to tell you to take two weeks before you sign anything. If a salesman needs an answer tonight, the answer is no. That’s how we’ve operated from day one.
Solar Services We Offer in Los Angeles
Solar Panel Installation
We size systems against your actual bill and your roof, not a national average. Los Angeles rooftop conditions vary block by block, from 1920s bungalows in West Adams to flat commercial buildings off Figueroa, and we plan for both.
Learn more about our Solar Panel Installation in Los Angeles.
Solar Battery Storage & Backup
LADWP’s tiered rates mean a battery isn’t just for blackouts; it’s how you stop paying peak rates for evening power. We install Los Angeles Solar Battery Storage & Backup systems from FranklinWH and others, sized to your household’s actual overnight draw.
Learn more about our Solar Battery Storage & Backup in Los Angeles.
Solar Panel Cleaning
South LA sits far enough inland that dust and particulate settle on panels faster than on the westside. A clean array can mean the difference between hitting your estimated production and falling short, and our Los Angeles Solar Panel Cleaning comes without a national chain surcharge.
Learn more about our Solar Panel Cleaning in Los Angeles.
EV Charger Installation
More Los Angeles driveways are getting EVs every year, and the 1920s-era panels in much of 90011 weren’t built for a 40-amp charger. We’ll check your service size honestly and handle EV Charger Installation in Los Angeles that won’t trip when the AC kicks on.
Call (877) 550-6892 to schedule an EV charger estimate.
Solar Panel Maintenance & Monitoring
We monitor what we install. If your production dips, Gus calls you, not the other way around. Most Los Angeles homeowners never look at their inverter again after install, and with us, you don’t have to.
Call (877) 550-6892 to talk about monitoring your existing system.
Solar Panel Repair
We repair systems other companies installed and walked away from. Something shorting, underperforming, or just acting strange? We’ll come out, diagnose it plainly, and tell you if it’s worth fixing before we touch a screwdriver.
Call (877) 550-6892. We offer $40 off any repair over $200 and a free second opinion on any written estimate.
Commercial Solar Installation
Small apartment buildings in Koreatown and retail strips through South LA have their own headaches: multiple meters, shared roofs, tenant-occupied units. We’ve worked those jobs enough to know what LADBS and LADWP will ask for before you file.
Call (877) 550-6892 to talk through a commercial project.
Neighborhoods We Serve in Los Angeles
Our trucks run daily through the neighborhoods that make up central and South Los Angeles. Typical response time for a service call inside our own county is same-day or next-day, depending on the call time and the job.
- Koreatown (90010)
- Historic South-Central (90011)
- South Park and Downtown LA (90012, 90013)
- Baldwin Hills and Crenshaw (90008)
- West Adams and Jefferson Park
Why Los Angeles’s Climate & Housing Affect Solar
Los Angeles isn’t one climate. If you’re in the coastal marine layer in Santa Monica, your June and July mornings are overcast and your panels start slow. But the inland South LA neighborhoods in the 90011 and 90012 zip codes sit far enough east to escape that layer, which means measurably higher annual kWh production than the westside. That’s a real advantage when we size your system against LADWP’s tiered rates: the more you produce during peak afternoon hours, the fewer expensive upper-tier kilowatt-hours you buy in the evening.
The housing stock tells the same story. Most of the residential properties across 90001 through 90010 were built between the 1920s and 1950s, and plenty still have original 100-amp or even sub-100-amp panels. We see it constantly in West Adams and Jefferson Park, where a 1920s stucco cottage with knob-and-tube remnants and aluminum branch wiring needs a panel upgrade before LADWP will grant permission to operate. Koreatown and South LA also have that dense layer of 1960s and 1970s apartment buildings, two to eight units, where shared roofs and multiple meters make every design decision a little more deliberate. We plan for that on day one, not the day the permit gets kicked back.
Pricing for Solar in Los Angeles
Here’s the honest version of what solar costs in Los Angeles right now. A typical 6 to 8 kW residential install on a composition shingle roof runs $16,000 to $24,000 before the federal tax credit, depending on equipment and panel brand. Battery storage adds $8,000 to $14,000. Panel cleaning runs $150 to $300 per visit depending on array size and roof pitch. A main panel upgrade, which most 1920s-1950s Los Angeles homes need, runs $2,500 to $5,000. These are real numbers from jobs we’ve bid in this city, not national averages. Call (877) 550-6892 and bring a bill. Gus will bring you the math.
Service Area - Cities Near Los Angeles
Beyond central Los Angeles, we also serve homeowners in Koreatown, Echo Park, Silver Lake, and View Park-Windsor Hills. Same crew, same 90-Day Done Right Promise, same phone number.
Serving Los Angeles, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Los Angeles area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs About Solar in Los Angeles
LADWP’s interconnection timeline typically runs two to four times longer than Southern California Edison’s, meaning from permit application to permission to operate usually stretches 60 to 120 days in Los Angeles. We schedule for that reality from the first site visit and keep you updated at each step. Call (877) 550-6892 if you want a straight answer on what your specific project is looking at.
Most homes built before 1960 in central and South Los Angeles still carry 100-amp or smaller service panels, and yes, LADWP will require an upgrade before granting PTO if your system plus your household load exceeds that rating. We’ll tell you on the first visit whether your panel can stay. Estimates are free, and nobody will pressure you to sign tonight.
For most failures on systems under 12 years old, repair is cheaper, often $200 to $600 for an inverter swap or a bad optimizer. Past 15 years, replacement starts making more sense. We offer a free second opinion on any written estimate, so bring us what another company quoted and we’ll tell you straight if it’s fair. Take two weeks to decide. The price will be the same.
In most cases, yes. If you call before 2 PM and you’re in one of our covered zip codes, we can typically get a truck to you same-day. Call (877) 550-6892 and a live person answers, 24/7.
Yes. The city of Los Angeles runs a dual-approval process where your permit works through LADBS at the same time your interconnection application works through LADWP, and we manage both. It’s one of the specific reasons many eastside and South LA homeowners end up with us after a bad experience with an SCE-county installer who didn’t know the city’s process.
We’ve spent enough time in 90011, 90012, and the streets around Exposition Park to know where the city’s process stalls and how to keep a project moving. That’s the difference between an installer who works Los Angeles and one who works around it.
Call (877) 550-6892 for a free estimate. Bring a bill, we’ll bring the math. Gus answers the phone.
Written by Gus Petrakis, Owner at Gus’s Solar, serving Los Angeles with the 90-Day Done Right Promise on every job.
What happens when you call
- 1A real person answersNo phone trees - talk to a local solar pro.
- 2You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched. No surprises.
- 3A background-checked tech heads outLicensed & insured, typically within 1-hour.
- 4You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
What Los Angeles Customers Say
"Panel level monitoring so I can see each one, proper stainless clips under the array rather than zip ties, and he walked me under it with a torch to show me before he signed off."
- Cassius Delacroix"Gus's own crew did the install. Not a subcontractor who had never met him, which is what the big outfit quoted me and could not tell me who would actually be on my roof."
- Aurelia Santibanez"He modelled it on my actual bill and the current export rates rather than the old ones, and told me plainly that the payback was longer than the door knockers had claimed. Then it came in about where he said it would."
- Octavius Redmond