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Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended June 30, 2023 and 2022
−Removed: Notes to the Financial Statement
+Added: Notes to the Financial Statements
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting
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Cash and cash equivalents
−Removed: Accounts receivable
+Added: Accounts receivable, net
Prepaid insurance and other current assets
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Total current liabilities
−Removed: Convertible notes payable (net of unamortized discount of $- 0 - and $ 41,307 as of June 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively)
+Added: Convertible notes payable
Total liabilities
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( 5,755,290 )
−Removed: Other income (expense):
+Added: Other expense:
Interest expense
−Removed: Gain on forgiveness of debt
−Removed: Total other income (expense)
+Added: Total other expense
$ ( 2,639,833 )
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Weighted average shares outstanding - basic and diluted
−Removed: Net loss per share
+Added: Net loss per share - basic and diluted
See Accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.
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Statements of Stockholders' Equity
+Added: Years Ended June 30, 2023 and 2022
Stockholders'
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Stock compensation expense
+Added: Adjustment for change in accounting principle
( 5,804,834 )
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( 15,799,395 )
+Added: Issuance of common stock in underwritten public offering
Issuance of common stock for conversion of debt and accrued interest
Stock compensation expense
−Removed: Adjustment for change in accounting principle
( 2,639,833 )
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Stock compensation expense
−Removed: Amortization of beneficial conversion feature
−Removed: Gain on forgiveness of debt
+Added: Bad debt expense
Changes in current assets and liabilities
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( 2,108,001 )
+Added: ( 1,163,296 )
Cash flows from financing activities:
+Added: Underwritten public offering of common stock
Proceeds from convertible notes payable
Net cash flows from financing activities
−Removed: Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents
+Added: Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period
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June 30, 2023
−Removed: (1) Business and Summary of Significant Accounting
+Added: Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Description of Business
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and an inverter at residential sites.
−Removed: The Company completed a public offering of shares of its common stock pursuant to Regulation A in
−Removed: May 2019 (see Note 3), and began assembling and selling its proprietary ESS units through wholesale customers, primarily in California,
−Removed: in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020.
+Added: The Company sells its proprietary ESS units through wholesale customers, primarily in California,
+Added: and in an expanding number of other states.
In August 2022, the Company completed an underwritten public offering of its equity securities
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limit of $250,000.
−Removed: The amount in excess of the FDIC insurance at June 30, 2022 was $ 80,385 .
−Removed: Inventory – Inventory
−Removed: consists of batteries and inverters purchased from Asian suppliers and delivered to a location near the Company’s offices, for assembly
−Removed: into ESS units.
+Added: At June 30, 2023, the Company maintained accounts at two different banks, of which the balance at the first bank was
+Added: within the FDIC insurance limit while the balance at the second bank was in excess of the FDIC insurance limit by $ 1,408,060 .
+Added: – Inventory consists of batteries and inverters purchased from Asian suppliers and delivered to a location near the
+Added: Company’s offices, for assembly into ESS units.
+Added: Additionally, we closed a bulk purchase of raw materials consisting of assembly
+Added: parts from our former contract manufacturer in April 2023, for a gross amount of $ 1.4
Inventory is stated at the lower of cost or net realizable value, cost being determined using the first-in, first out
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Inventory write-downs are charged to cost of goods sold.
−Removed: No inventory reserve was required as of June 30, 2022.
−Removed: The following
−Removed: table presents the components of inventory as of June 30, 2022 and 2021:
+Added: No inventory reserve was required as of June 30, 2023 and 2022.
+Added: The following table presents the components of inventory as of June 30, 2023 and 2022:
Schedule of inventory
−Removed: Raw materials
+Added: Raw materials, consisting of assembly parts, batteries and inverters
Work in process
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from contracts with customers, consisting of a relatively small number of wholesale dealers and installers, primarily in California.
−Removed: the year ended June 30, 2022, two such dealers represented approximately 20 % each of the Company’s revenues whereas in the year
−Removed: ended June 30, 2021, four such dealers represented approximately 18 %, 15 %, 13 % and 10 % of the Company’s revenues.
−Removed: As of June 30,
−Removed: 2022, one dealer represented 33 % of the Company’s accounts receivable.
−Removed: As of June 30, 2021, three dealers represented an aggregate
−Removed: of 54 % of the Company’s accounts receivable.
−Removed: Under its present contracts with customers, the Company’s sole performance obligation
−Removed: is the delivery of products to the customer.
−Removed: Since all of the Company’s revenue is currently generated from the sales of similar
−Removed: products delivered to customers in domestic locations, no further disaggregation of revenue information for the years ended June 30, 2022
−Removed: and 2021 is provided.
+Added: the year ended June 30, 2023, three such dealers represented approximately 25 %, 15 % and 13 % of the Company’s revenues, however,
+Added: no other dealers accounted for more than 10% of the revenues in such period.
+Added: Those same three dealers plus one other one represented an
+Added: aggregate of approximately 94 % of the Company’s accounts receivable as of June 30, 2023 (net of allowance), however, no other dealers
+Added: accounted for more than 10% of the accounts receivable as of June 30, 2023.
+Added: In the year ended June 30, 2022, two such dealers represented
+Added: approximately 20 % each of the Company’s revenues.
+Added: Under its present contracts with customers, the Company’s sole performance
+Added: obligation is the delivery of products to the customer.
+Added: Since all of the Company’s revenue is currently generated from the sales
+Added: of similar products delivered to customers in domestic locations, no further disaggregation of revenue information for the years ended
+Added: June 30, 2023 and 2022 is provided.
Allowance for Doubtful
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realization of a customer’s account.
−Removed: As of June 30, 2022, no allowance for doubtful accounts has been recorded.
+Added: As of June 30, 2023 and 2022, our allowance for doubtful accounts was $ 490,000 and zero, respectively.
Income Taxes –
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weighted-average number of common shares outstanding excludes common stock equivalents, because their inclusion would be anti-dilutive.
−Removed: As of June 30, 2022, the Company had outstanding common stock equivalents of 9,404,867 shares related to convertible notes, including
−Removed: accrued interest, issued in May 2018, and 267,000 shares related to convertible notes issued in October 2021 (see Notes 2 and 7).
+Added: As of June 30, 2023, the Company had total outstanding common stock equivalents of 1,229,750 shares as follows:
+Added: (i) 1,121,250 shares related
+Added: to warrants issued to investors in the public offering completed in August 2022;
+Added: (ii) 58,500 shares related to warrants issued to the
+Added: underwriters in that same offering;
+Added: and (iii) 50,000 shares related to restricted stock units granted to an officer in March 2022 (see
Research and Development
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At June 30, 2023 and 2022,
−Removed: 2021, the Company did no t have any financial assets or liabilities measured and recorded at fair value on the Company’s
−Removed: balance sheets on a recurring basis.
−Removed: Recent Accounting Pronouncements
−Removed: – From time to time, new accounting pronouncements are issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, (“FASB”),
−Removed: or other standard setting bodies and adopted by us as of the specified effective date.
−Removed: Unless otherwise discussed, the impact of recently
−Removed: issued standards that are not yet effective will not have a material impact on the Company’s financial position or results of operations
−Removed: upon adoption.
−Removed: The Company has considered all other recently issued accounting pronouncements and does not believe the adoption of such
−Removed: pronouncements will have a material impact on its financial statements.
+Added: the Company did no t have any financial assets or liabilities measured and recorded at fair value on the Company’s balance sheets
+Added: on a recurring basis.
+Added: Accounting Pronouncements – From time to time, new accounting pronouncements are issued by the Financial Accounting
+Added: Standards Board, (“FASB”), or other standard setting bodies and adopted by us as of the specified effective date.
+Added: otherwise discussed, the impact of recently issued standards that are not yet effective will not have a material impact on the Company’s
+Added: financial position or results of operations upon adoption.
+Added: The Company has considered all other recently issued accounting pronouncements,
+Added: including the new provisions of ASC 326 (“Financial Instruments – Credit Losses”) pertaining to “current expected
+Added: credit losses,” and does not believe the adoption of such pronouncements will have a material impact on its financial statements.
Effective as of July 1, 2021,
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As disclosed in
−Removed: Note 7, we completed a public offering of our equity securities in August 2022 that raised net total proceeds of approximately $ 3,855,000 .
−Removed: With the proceeds of this equity offering, we anticipate that we will have sufficient cash resources in order to operate our business
−Removed: for at least the next 12 months from the date these financial statements are issued.
−Removed: On various dates beginning
−Removed: in May 2018, the Company entered into six unsecured convertible notes payable for aggregate proceeds of $104,688.
−Removed: Each note bears interest
−Removed: at 12% per annum and both principal and accrued interest are due at maturity five years from the date of issuance.
−Removed: These notes are convertible
−Removed: at any time, at the option of the holder, into shares of the Company’s common stock at a conversion price of $0.0063 per share.
−Removed: The Company performed an analysis to determine whether there was a beneficial conversion feature and noted none.
−Removed: The notes are structured
−Removed: to be converted into shares of the Company’s common stock at the conversion price, subject to a shareholder limitation of 4.99%
−Removed: of the Company’s outstanding common stock.
−Removed: This conversion feature resulted in the full repayment of the notes payable owed to two
−Removed: such note holders in conjunction with the closing of an IPO in May 2019 and left the four remaining note holders with a total outstanding
−Removed: principal balance of $87,116 (see Notes 3 and 7).
−Removed: Effective May 19, 2019, the
−Removed: remaining holders of the convertible notes payable agreed to prospectively amend the terms of the outstanding balance of their notes to
−Removed: reduce the interest rate from 12% per annum to 3.99% per annum and to change the interest accrual method from a compound to a simple basis.
−Removed: Due to this amendment, the Company was required to perform an updated debt modification analysis under ASC 470 and determined that the
−Removed: amendment qualified as an extinguishment of debt and therefore a beneficial conversion feature was required to be evaluated as of the
−Removed: date of the modification.
−Removed: Since the fair value of the Company’s common stock at the time of the amendment was sufficiently higher
−Removed: than the conversion price, it was determined that a beneficial conversion feature in the amount of $87,116 existed as of that date.
−Removed: the Company recorded a debt discount, offset by a credit to additional paid-in capital, in the amount of $87,116 as of May 19, 2019, and
−Removed: began amortizing the debt discount to interest expense over the remaining term of the notes.
−Removed: As of July 1, 2021, the Company adopted a
−Removed: new accounting standard for convertible debt by reversing the previously recorded cumulative amortization expense of $45,809 and the remaining
−Removed: unamortized balance of the debt discount of $41,307, with an offsetting adjustment to reduce additional paid-in capital, in the amount
−Removed: of $87,116 (see Note 1).
−Removed: In the years ended June 30,
−Removed: 2022 and 2021, holders of certain convertible notes payable elected to convert portions of their notes, consisting of both principal and
−Removed: accrued interest, in the aggregate amounts of $ 6,922 and $ 22,711 , respectively, into equity.
−Removed: Based upon the stated conversion price of
−Removed: $0.0063 per share, these investors elected to convert or exchange such convertible notes payable into a total of 1,098,630 and 3,604,830
−Removed: shares of common stock for the years ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively (see Notes 3 and 7).
−Removed: October 18, 2021, the Company completed a new convertible debt offering with a group of accredited investors via the issuance of notes
−Removed: in the total amount of $ 1,068,000 .
−Removed: The unsecured notes bear interest at the rate of 6 % per annum and are due one year from the date of
−Removed: In the event, however, of a qualified public offering of the Company’s common stock pursuant to which the Company’s
−Removed: common stock becomes listed for trading on a national securities exchange, the principal amount of the notes and any accrued interest
−Removed: will be automatically converted into shares of the Company’s common stock at a conversion price of $4.00 of principal per share ( see
−Removed: As of June 30, 2022, the
−Removed: future maturities of all notes payable are as follows (see Note 7):
−Removed: Schedule of future maturities of long-term debt
−Removed: Year ending June 30, 2023
−Removed: Year ending June 30, 2024
−Removed: Total long-term debt
−Removed: As a result of the economic
−Removed: impact of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020, the Company applied for and received a loan under the U.S.
−Removed: government sponsored Paycheck
−Removed: Protection Program (“PPP”) in May 2020 in the amount of $29,600.
−Removed: Under the terms of the PPP loan, the Company was allowed
−Removed: to apply to have the PPP loan forgiven provided that it met certain documentation requirements.
−Removed: The Company made such an application in
−Removed: late 2020 and the loan was subsequently forgiven in full, effective February 26, 2021.
−Removed: Accordingly, the Company recognized a gain on the
−Removed: forgiveness of debt for the year ended June 30, 2021 in the amount of $ 29,600 .
+Added: Note 3, we completed a public offering of our equity securities in August 2022 that raised total net proceeds of approximately $3,780,000.
+Added: We anticipate that we will have sufficient cash resources in order to operate our business for at least the next 12 months from the date
+Added: these financial statements are issued.
+Added: Notes Payable
+Added: In conjunction with the closing
+Added: of our underwritten public offering in August 2022 (see Note 3), all holders of the Company’s two outstanding series of convertible
+Added: notes payable, which were originally issued to various accredited investors in May 2018 and October 2021, agreed to convert their debt
+Added: into a total of 9,671,867 shares of our common stock at the respective conversion rates.
+Added: Each of these two series of our converted notes
+Added: payable is further described below.
+Added: In May 2018, we entered into
+Added: convertible note payable agreements with a group of accredited investors for aggregate proceeds of $104,688.
+Added: Each unsecured note originally
+Added: bore interest at a rate of 12% per annum, which was later reduced by mutual agreement to 3.99% per annum in May 2019.
+Added: Subsequently, the
+Added: holders of certain of these notes elected to convert or exchange certain portions of their convertible notes payable into shares of our
+Added: common stock, based upon the stated conversion rate of $0.0063 per share.
+Added: As of the closing of our underwritten public offering in August
+Added: 2022, the holders of the remaining balance of such unconverted notes in the total amount of $ 59,251 , including accrued interest, agreed
+Added: to convert their debt into a total of 9,404,867 shares of our common stock at the stated conversion rate of $0.0063 per share.
+Added: In October 2021, we
+Added: entered into convertible note payable agreements with a group of accredited investors for aggregate proceeds of $ 1,068,000 .
+Added: Each unsecured note bore interest at a rate of 6% per annum.
+Added: As of the closing of our underwritten public offering in August 2022,
+Added: pursuant to the terms of such convertible notes, the notes in the total amount of $1,120,035, including accrued interest, were
+Added: automatically converted into a total of 267,000
+Added: shares of our common stock at the stated conversion rate of $4.00 of principal per share.
Common Stock –
−Removed: In the years ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, holders of certain convertible notes payable elected to convert portions of their notes, consisting
−Removed: of both principal and accrued interest, in the aggregate amounts of $ 6,922 and $ 22,711 , respectively, into equity.
−Removed: Based upon the stated
−Removed: conversion price of $0.0063 per share, these investors elected to convert or exchange such convertible notes payable into a total of 1,098,630
−Removed: and 3,604,830 shares of common stock for the years ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively (see Notes 2 and 7).
−Removed: Stock Compensation Expense
−Removed: – In December 2019, the Company awarded a total of 700,000 shares of common stock to a company controlled by the Company’s
−Removed: Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) and a marketing consultant.
−Removed: The Company valued the stock awards at a total amount of $ 700,000 ,
−Removed: based on the above-noted public offering price of $1.00 per share.
−Removed: For the 500,000 shares awarded to a company controlled by the Company’s
−Removed: CEO, the Company immediately amortized $500,000 as a non-cash charge to expense as such shares were considered to have been earned by
−Removed: the CEO under the Company’s milestone incentive compensation program, as of December 31, 2019, notwithstanding that issuance of
−Removed: the shares was deferred until a later date (such shares were not issued until March 2022).
−Removed: For the 200,000 shares awarded to a marketing
−Removed: consultant, the Company amortized $200,000 as a non-cash charge to expense over his 24 month services agreement.
−Removed: In June 2020, the Company
−Removed: entered into new Board approved employment contracts with the Company’s two executive officers and also entered into a related contractor
−Removed: agreement with a company controlled by the Company’s CEO.
−Removed: Pursuant to such contracts, the company controlled by the Company’s
−Removed: CEO and the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, in his individual capacity, met the necessary milestones to earn a total of 1,600,000
−Removed: incentive shares of common stock, with a fair value of $6,976,000, as of December 31, 2020.
−Removed: These shares, plus another 14,530 incentive
−Removed: shares earned by a wholesale dealer (see Note 5), were issued in February 2021.
−Removed: In the year ended June 30, 2021, the Company recognized
−Removed: non-cash stock compensation expense for the fair value of such shares, along with the final amortization expense attributable to shares
−Removed: previously granted to the marketing consultant, in the total amount of $ 7,437,389 , which also included the fair value of certain earned
−Removed: shares subsequently issued to other grantees.
−Removed: Pursuant to the above noted
−Removed: contract with a company controlled by the Company’s CEO, such company met the necessary milestones to earn a total of an additional
−Removed: 500,000 incentive shares of common stock as of December 31, 2021, with a then current value of $3,505,000.
−Removed: These shares, plus another
−Removed: 500,000 incentive shares previously earned by that company, were issued in the quarter ended March 31, 2022, at which time the agreement
−Removed: with the company controlled by the Company’s CEO was terminated and the CEO entered into a new employment agreement, as described
−Removed: in the following paragraph.
−Removed: In the year ended June 30, 2022, the Company issued a total of 1,237,733 shares of common stock to all grantees,
−Removed: including the aggregate 1,000,000 shares of common stock attributable to the company controlled by the CEO.
+Added: In August 2022, the Company completed an underwritten public offering of its equity securities in the form of Units with each Unit consisting
+Added: of one share of common stock and one warrant (each, a “Warrant” and collectively, the “Warrants”) to purchase
+Added: one share of common stock at an exercise price of $4.00 per share.
+Added: The shares of common stock and the Warrants comprising the Units were
+Added: immediately separated at closing of the offering and each is now independently listed on the NASDAQ Capital Market.
+Added: Each Warrant became
+Added: exercisable on the date of issuance and will expire five years from the date of issuance.
+Added: In the underwritten public
+Added: offering, a total of 1,121,250 Units, including exercise of the underwriter’s overallotment option, were sold at an offering price
+Added: to the public of $4.00 per Unit.
+Added: The gross proceeds of the offering were $ 4,485,000 and the net proceeds, after deduction of underwriting
+Added: discounts and other offering costs were approximately $ 3,780,000 .
+Added: The Company also granted the underwriter non-tradeable warrants to purchase
+Added: a total of 58,500 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $4.40 per share for a period of five years.
+Added: In conjunction with the public
+Added: offering, all holders of the Company’s 2018 convertible notes in the total amount of $ 59,251 , including accrued interest, converted
+Added: their debt into a total of 9,404,867 shares of common stock at the stated conversion rate, and all holders of the Company’s 2021
+Added: convertible notes in the total amount of $1,068,000 converted their debt into a total of 267,000 shares of common stock at the stated
+Added: conversion rate (see Note 2).
In the year ended June 30,
−Removed: 2022, the Company recognized total non-cash stock compensation expense of $ 5,307,809 as follows:
−Removed: (i) $4,534,554 for the fair value of
−Removed: the 500,000 newly earned shares by the CEO controlled company plus the fair value of earned shares issued to several other grantees, including
−Removed: $278,750 for the amortized value of 50,000 shares attributable to a new independent director and $60,062 for 8,568 incentive shares earned
−Removed: by a wholesale dealer (see Note 5);
−Removed: and (ii) $773,255 for non-cash stock compensation attributable to the new employment contracts entered
−Removed: into with the two executive officers, as further described in the next two paragraphs.
−Removed: In February 2022, we entered
−Removed: into a new employment agreement with our CEO, effective April 1, 2022.
−Removed: The initial term of the employment agreement is one year and is
−Removed: automatically renewable for additional one-year terms unless either party chooses not to renew the agreement.
−Removed: The agreement provides for
−Removed: an initial annual salary of $165,000.
−Removed: Pursuant to the agreement, we issued our CEO a restricted stock unit (“RSU”) award for
−Removed: up to 150,000 shares of our common stock upon achieving the following milestones (which achievements shall be determined by the Board):
−Removed: (i) Milestone 1 - Successfully complete an uplisting of our common stock in 2022 and continue his employment with our company until January
+Added: 2022, the holders of the 2018 convertible notes payable having total principal and accrued interest balances in the aggregate amount of
+Added: $ 6,922 elected to convert their notes.
+Added: Based upon the stated conversion price of $0.0063 per share, these holders converted their notes
+Added: payable into a total of 1,098,630 shares of common stock (see Note 2).
+Added: Warrants – The
+Added: Warrants for a total of 1,179,750 shares of common stock issued to investors and the underwriters are exercisable at any time after their
+Added: original issuance and at any time up to the date that is five years after their original issuance, or August 1, 2027.
+Added: The Warrants may
+Added: be exercised upon payment of the exercise price in cash on or prior to the expiration date.
+Added: Under the terms of the Warrant Agreement,
+Added: we must use our best efforts to maintain the effectiveness of the registration statement and current prospectus relating to common stock
+Added: issuable upon exercise of the Warrants until the expiration of the Warrants.
+Added: If we fail to maintain the effectiveness of the registration
+Added: statement and current prospectus relating to the common stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants, the holders of the Warrants shall
+Added: have the right to exercise the Warrants solely via a cashless exercise feature provided for in the Warrants, until such time as there
+Added: is an effective registration statement and current prospectus.
+Added: The following table presents
+Added: activity with respect to the Company’s warrants for the year ended June 30, 2023:
+Added: Schedule of warrants activity
+Added: Outstanding at July 1, 2022
+Added: Warrants issued to Public Investors
+Added: Warrants issued to Underwriters
+Added: Outstanding at June 30, 2023
+Added: Exercisable at June 30, 2023
+Added: These warrants were issued
+Added: in conjunction with an underwritten public equity offering, therefore, there was no employee or non-employee compensation expense recognized.
+Added: Stock Compensation
+Added: Expense – In February 2022, we entered into a new employment agreement with our Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”),
+Added: effective April 1, 2022.
+Added: The initial term of the employment agreement was one year and is automatically renewable for additional one-year
+Added: terms unless either party chooses not to renew the agreement.
+Added: The agreement provides for an initial annual salary of $165,000.
+Added: to the agreement, we issued our CEO a restricted stock unit (“RSU”) award for up to 150,000 shares of our common stock upon
+Added: achieving the following milestones (which achievements shall be determined by the Board):
+Added: (i) Milestone 1 - Successfully complete an uplisting
+Added: of our common stock in 2022 and continue his employment with our company until January 1, 2023:
50,000 shares;
−Removed: and (ii) Milestone 2 - Produce 2,000 ESSs in 2022 and continue his employment with our company until January 1,
+Added: and (ii) Milestone 2 -
+Added: Produce 2,000 ESSs in 2022 and continue his employment with our company until January 1, 2023:
100,000 shares.
+Added: As of January 1, 2023,
+Added: Milestone 1 was achieved, however, Milestone 2 was not achieved.
+Added: The underlying 50,000 shares of common stock earned under Milestone 1
+Added: were issued to the CEO as of that date.
In February 2022, we entered
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50,000 shares.
+Added: Milestone 1 was
+Added: achieved as of January 1, 2023, and the underlying 250,000 shares of common stock earned under Milestone 1 were issued to the CFO as of
Based upon the Company’s
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Company has calculated the grant date value of such awards and is amortizing it as stock compensation expense over the underlying performance
−Removed: As previously indicated, the Company has recognized stock compensation expense applicable to such RSU awards in the amount of
−Removed: $773,255 for the year ended June 30, 2022.
+Added: The Company has recognized stock compensation expense applicable to such RSU awards in the years ended June 30, 2023 and 2022
+Added: in the amounts of $ 1,241,563 and $ 773,255 , respectively.
+Added: In conjunction with our public
+Added: offering in August 2022, we appointed two new independent directors and adopted a new compensation plan for all independent directors
+Added: based on an annual compensation amount of $65,000 to be paid quarterly with not less than 70% of such amount paid in shares of our common
+Added: stock, calculated based on the share price at the end of such prior fiscal quarter, and up to 30% paid in cash, with such final amounts
+Added: to be determined by each director.
+Added: As of June 30, 2023, we booked an annual accrual of $ 195,000 of compensation expense (of which $175,500
+Added: will be settled through the issuance of shares) for our three independent directors under this plan.
+Added: At the same time, we also granted
+Added: 26,000 shares, with a grant date value of $ 97,500 , to various advisors pursuant to annual contracts for their services.
+Added: In the year ended June 30,
+Added: 2023, we recognized total non-cash stock compensation expense of $ 1,529,291 as follows:
+Added: (i) $ 1,241,563 for the amortized value of the
+Added: RSUs granted to our two executive officers, as previously described;
+Added: (ii) $ 175,500 for the amortized value of the portion of the new compensation
+Added: plan for our independent directors that is attributable to stock;
+Added: (iii) $ 85,000 for the net amortized value of the shares granted to various
+Added: advisors under their annual service contracts;
+Added: and (iv) $ 27,228 for the fair value of incentive shares earned by two wholesale dealers
+Added: as of December 31, 2022 (see Note 5).
+Added: There was a total of 384,759 shares of common stock that were issued to various grantees, including
+Added: our two executive officers, in the year ended June 30, 2023, of which 75,000 shares were previously expensed in the year ended June 30,
+Added: In the year ended June 30,
+Added: 2022, we recognized total non-cash stock compensation expense of $ 5,307,809 as follows:
+Added: (i) $ 3,505,000 for the fair value of 500,000 incentive
+Added: shares earned as of December 31, 2021 by a company controlled by the Company’s CEO under a previous compensation plan (which were
+Added: not issued until early 2022);
+Added: (ii) $ 773,255 for the initial amortized value of the RSUs granted to our two executive officers, as previously
+Added: and (iii) $ 1,029,554 for the fair value of earned shares issued to several other grantees, including $ 278,750 for the amortized
+Added: value of 50,000 shares attributable to a new independent director and $ 60,062 for 8,568 incentive shares earned by a wholesale dealer
+Added: as of December 31, 2021 (see Note 5).
+Added: There was a total of 1,237,733 shares of common stock that were issued to various grantees in the
+Added: year ended June 30, 2022.
Other Matters –
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Effective January 1, 2021,
−Removed: the Company secured new corporate and manufacturing office space under a sublease agreement with its contract manufacturer (see Note 6).
−Removed: Under the terms of the sublease agreement, the Company is required to make rental payments of $10,350 per month during the initial one-year
−Removed: term of the agreement.
−Removed: The sublease agreement is renewable upon mutual agreement of both parties for up to four additional years at a
−Removed: modest increase in the monthly rent, however, the Company is under is no obligation to renew it.
−Removed: Management has determined that the exercise
−Removed: of the renewal option is not reasonably certain and, as such, the Company has accounted for it as a short-term lease under ASC 842, Leases .
−Removed: Effective January 1, 2022, the Company elected to renew the agreement for another one year period.
+Added: the Company secured new corporate and manufacturing office space under a sublease agreement with its former contract manufacturer (see
+Added: Under the terms of the sublease agreement, the Company is required to make rental payments of $10,350 per month during the initial
+Added: one-year term of the agreement.
+Added: The sublease is renewable for additional terms of 12 months upon mutual agreement of both parties, provided
+Added: thirty days’ notice is given for each subsequent term, at a modest increase in the monthly rent, through February 28, 2025, however,
+Added: the Company is under is no obligation to renew it.
+Added: Management has determined that the exercise of the renewal option is not reasonably
+Added: certain and, as such, the Company has accounted for it as a short-term lease under ASC 842, Leases .
+Added: Effective January 1, 2023,
+Added: the Company elected to renew the agreement for another one year period.
+Added: Under an amendment to our supply agreement with our former contract
+Added: manufacturer in April 2023, we took over direct responsibility for the manufacturing process surrounding our ESS units on June 1, 2023,
+Added: however, that amendment had no effect on the sublease agreement with our former contract manufacturer.
As indicated in Note 1, the
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quarterly sales targets, subject to defined maximums.
−Removed: Pursuant to such agreements, one dealer met the necessary milestones to earn 14,530
−Removed: incentive shares of common stock in December 2020, which were issued in February 2021, and also earned another 8,568 incentive shares
−Removed: of common stock in December 2021, which were issued in March 2022.
+Added: Pursuant to such agreements, two dealers met the necessary milestones to earn a
+Added: total of 9,759 incentive shares of common stock in December 2022, which were issued in January 2023, and one dealer earned 8,568 incentive
+Added: shares of common stock in December 2021, which were issued in March 2022.
From time to time in the ordinary
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(6) Related Party Transactions
−Removed: An executive officer of the
−Removed: corporate parent company of our contract manufacturer (see Note 5) was nominated to become a director of the Company in January 2022 and
−Removed: his appointment became effective upon our completion of a public offering in August 2022 (see Note 7).
−Removed: Pursuant to an agreement that we
−Removed: reached with our contract manufacturer prior to such nomination and appointment, we made payments to that company to assemble our energy
−Removed: storage systems during the year ended June 30, 2022 in the total amount of $ 857,025 .
−Removed: Additionally, we made contractual payments to that
−Removed: company for our rental of office space during the year ended June 30, 2022 in the total amount of approximately $ 126,000 .
−Removed: (7) Subsequent
−Removed: On August 1, 2022, the Company
−Removed: completed an underwritten public offering of its equity securities in the form of Units with each Unit consisting of one share of common
−Removed: stock and one warrant (each, a “Warrant” and collectively, the “Warrants”) to purchase one share of common stock
−Removed: at an exercise price of $4.00 per share.
−Removed: The shares of common stock and the Warrants comprising the Units were immediately separated at
−Removed: closing of the offering and each is now independently listed on the NASDAQ Capital Market.
−Removed: Each Warrant became exercisable on the date
−Removed: of issuance and will expire five years from the date of issuance.
−Removed: At the initial closing, a
−Removed: total of 975,000 Units were sold in the offering at an offering price to the public of $4.00 per Unit.
−Removed: The gross proceeds of the offering
−Removed: were $3,900,000 and the net proceeds, after deduction of underwriting discounts and other offering costs were approximately $3,315,000.
−Removed: The Company granted the underwriter a 45-day option to purchase up to an additional 146,250 shares of common stock and/or 146,250 additional
−Removed: Warrants solely to cover any overallotments at the public offering price, less underwriting discounts and commissions.
−Removed: As of August 5,
−Removed: 2022, the underwriters had elected to exercise such option on both the common stock and Warrants resulting in additional net proceeds
−Removed: to the Company of approximately $540,000.
−Removed: The Company also granted the underwriter non-tradeable warrants to purchase a total of 58,500
−Removed: shares of common stock at an exercise price of $4.40 per share for a period of five years.
−Removed: conjunction with the public offering, all holders of the Company’s 2018 convertible notes in the total amount of $53,716 converted
−Removed: their debt into a total of 9,404,867 shares of common stock at the stated conversion rate, and all holders of the Company’s 2021
−Removed: convertible notes in the total amount of $1,068,000 converted their debt into a total of 267,000 shares of common stock at the stated
−Removed: conversion rate (see Note 2).
−Removed: As a result of the closing of the public offering and the conversion of both sets of convertible notes,
−Removed: the Company has a total of 32,770,368 shares of common stock outstanding and has fully eliminated its convertible debt.
+Added: In the year ended June
+Added: 30, 2022, we appointed the former owner of our contract manufacturer (see Note 5) to become a director of the Company.
+Added: of his appointment, the former owner of our contract manufacturer still had significant related party influence over its operations
+Added: in his capacity with the contract manufacturer’s new parent company.
+Added: Pursuant to an agreement that we reached with our
+Added: contract manufacturer prior to such appointment, we made payments to that company to assemble our energy storage systems during the
+Added: year ended June 30, 2022 in the total amount of $ 857,025 .
+Added: Additionally, we made contractual payments to that company for rental of our office space during the year ended June 30, 2022 in the
+Added: total amount of approximately $ 126,000 .
+Added: Effective April 1, 2023, we
+Added: amended our agreement with our contract manufacturer resulting in our taking over direct responsibility for our manufacturing operations
+Added: from that company, thus eliminating the related party relationship.
+Added: Prior to the termination of such relationship, we made contractual
+Added: payments to that company to assemble our energy storage systems during the period from July 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023 in the total amount
+Added: of $ 669,424 .
+Added: Additionally, we made contractual payments to that company for rental of our office space during the period from July 1,
+Added: 2022 to March 31, 2023 in the total amount of $ 95,250 .
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