The maison
Two yacht people, one energy problem.
Hybrid Solar Systems was founded by professionals whose careers were built in the superyacht industry, and who kept meeting the same gap at the quayside.
Who we are
Engineering habits from an industry with no tolerance for approximation.
Superyacht work teaches two things quickly: how to build something that survives the sea, and how to build something a demanding client will still admire five years later. Both turn out to be exactly what marina energy infrastructure has been missing.
Between them, the two founders have spent decades in carbon composites and refit management. The company exists to point that experience at a single question: how a harbour can generate its own power without looking like an industrial site.
Arjaan Stevens
Founder, Tec Wire
Builds high-end carbon fibre equipment for sailing and motor yachts worldwide. Brings the materials discipline.
Matthew Pidsley
Founder, Refit International · Managing Director
Two decades of refit and project management. Brings the operational discipline.
Mission
Clean energy is the baseline, not the pitch.
Generating power sustainably is no longer remarkable on its own. What remains difficult is doing it with equipment that improves the place it stands in, and doing it with technology serious enough to hold up under audit.
Sustainability and design should reinforce each other. Every decision in the programme is tested against both.
Vision
Marinas that are self-sustaining, not merely compliant.
The end state we are building towards is a harbour that produces what it consumes: trees charging tenders and electric boats, carrying the lighting, running the amenities, and pushing the surplus back out to the town behind it.
Each project is developed for both function and form, with the long service life the marine environment demands.
