I have found a company that can replace EVERY diesel generator on earth with a fuel-free, fume-free, noise-free product that can last for hours or days, depending on the model.

It’s as small as a suitcase, or as big as a SmartCar. It can serve as energy storage—back up power—ANYWHERE. It can be transported in helicopters, it can be buried in the ground, it’s scalable and it can be solar powered (you never have to visit/re-fill it!).  It’s being sold to business, military, heavy industry and retail—all over the world, right now.

It’s not just back-up power, it’s used every day, right now, underground in subways, by big city transit in Toronto and Montreal.  Fume free and noise free! Portable! These small, portable power packs can provide reliable power for an entire 8-hour or 10 hour shift.

Sales of these portable power packs, the Batt Packs,  have been rocketing up for three years in a row. Invented by 34 year old Toronto native Francois Byrne when he was in his early 20s, he took his project public in December 2023 to raise money to meet the fast growing demand. The company, Hybrid Power Solutions, trades under the symbol is HPSS on the CSE, Canadian Securities Exchange.

A large Canadian utility just announced their first purchase TODAY of Hybrid’s Batt-Pack—which they use for portable power. Electric and hydraulic equipment can operate off a PTO (Power Take Off) bar on a truck or tractor, but it has be ON, idling, burning fossil fuels, to do that. That idling is responsible for a huge amount of wear and tear on the engine which results in high operating costs. The Batt Pack has no need of that, saving energy costs and is emission free.

He has sold thousands of products out of his Toronto manufacturing plant to utilities across North America, customers in Australia and Canada and Europe.  He just signed an LOI with a distributor in Nigeria, where brown-outs are common across the country.

After visiting his Toronto facility this week, and seeing how many customers they have and all the hustle & bustle in their manufacturing department, I couldn’t help but wonder—Why hasn’t anybody done this before?

Byrne says other companies have pieces and parts of his big suite of products—right up to 1 MEGAWATT – but nobody has the scalable line of power supply that Hybrid Power Solutions delivers. They provide the customer a full solution of products, not just a single product.

Byrne’s Batt-Pack power line solves a lot of industry and people’s problems. But it has created One Big Problem for him: the business is in constant need of growth capital.

His engineers and manufacturing staff are working flat-out as fast as they can.

If you have read Phil Knight’s book, SHOE DOG—this is Byrne’s life right now.  Knight, the founder of Nike shoe company, published an incredible account of his early days getting Nike started—what he had to do to fund his 100% growth, Year-over-Year. 

Banks only want to lend you money when you don’t need it!

Hey, these are GREAT problems to have.  Byrne expects to do $5 million this year, and $10 million revenue in 2025.  He needs more space, more staff—more MONEY—to fill the fast growing order book he now has.

He has had to switch from a direct sales team to a distributor sales model, as there are just too many orders and customers to track from their one facility.  That takes time, but he used his IPO funds to bridge that gap, and now orders are coming in.  The day I was there, staff were packaging a big order headed to Australia.

Being public helps, but here’s what he really needs—an angel investor of some kind to provide a $2 million Line-of-Credit (LOC)—at rates that aren’t usurious—to keep ordering all the materials for their exponential growth.

This is a product suite with GLOBAL reach. It’s an ANYWHERE power supply that can be used by EVERYBODY. 

That’s what I’m looking for in a micro-cap play. These Batt-Packs can replace EVERY DIESEL GENERATOR IN THE WORLD.

What is that worth?  This stock trades for 25-30 cents. 

I’m happy to be long the stock.  I’m not paid anything by them, I just love the product, the growth trajectory and that a young Canadian invented this all on his own.

Francois can be reached at f.byrne@hybridps.ca .