The analysis and the implementation of a low-cost hybrid solar simulator consisting of few types of commercial power LEDs and one halogen lamp have been carried out in this paper.The main advantage of the proposed solar simulator lays in the use of the halogen lamp. This source of light is very cheap and controllable, and it has a high power in NIR region, making it possible to avoid the use of expensive IR diode emitters. Onthe other hand, a drawback consists in its cooling problems,being located close to other light sources (LEDs). A design procedure for Class B spectral matching witha working area of 12.5 × 12.5 cm2 (single simulator unit)is presented, which is based on an optimization process tominimize the spectral mismatch between solar and simulatorspectra. Due to the simulator modularity, the working area can beextended by using more simulator units. In this case, betterperformances in terms of irradiance uniformity are expected,since intermediate aluminum light guides are not necessaryin the case of adjacent units, avoiding the attenuation due tothe nonideal spectral reflectivity and improving the irradiance uniformity. All these aspects could be better investigated in afuture work.