Debt

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2012

Debt [Abstract]

DEBT

NOTE 7. DEBT

Credit Facilities

On December 22, 2011, the Company entered into a $4.5 million revolving line of credit (“credit facility”) with Rosenthal & Rosenthal. The total loan amount available to the Company under the line of credit is equal to 85% of its net amount of eligible receivables, plus available inventory (the lesser of 50% of the lower of cost or market value of eligible inventory, or $0.3 million). The credit facility is secured by a lien on the domestic assets of the Company. The interest rate for borrowing on accounts receivable is 8.5%, on inventories 10.0% and on overdrafts 13.0%. Additionally, there is an annual 1% facility fee on the entire amount of the credit facility, $4.5 million, payable at the beginning of the year. The credit facility is a three year agreement, expiring on December 31, 2014, unless terminated sooner. There are liquidated damages if the credit facility is terminated prior to December 31, 2014, which are based on the maximum credit facility amount then in effect. The damages are: 3% if terminated prior to the first anniversary of the closing date, 2% if terminated prior to the second anniversary of the closing date, and 1% if terminated prior to the third anniversary of the closing date. The Company is required to comply with certain financial covenants, measured quarterly, including, as defined in the agreement: a tangible net worth amount and a working capital amount. The Company was in compliance with the financial covenants at March 31, 2012. Borrowings under the revolving line of credit were $1.3 million at March 31, 2012 and are recorded in the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets as a current liability under the caption “Credit line borrowings.”

Borrowings

On August 11, 2011, the Company entered into a Letter of Credit Agreement (“LOC”) with Mark Plush, Chief Financial Officer of the Company, in the amount of $0.3 million. The LOC has a term of 24 months and bears interest at a rate of 12.5% on the face amount. The LOC is collateralized by a cash deposit with an insurance company issuing the Company’s contract performance bonds and by 32% of the unpledged stock of Crescent Lighting, Ltd., a subsidiary of the Company. As an incentive to enter into the LOC’s, the Company issued five-year, detached warrants to purchase 125,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $0.01 per share. The LOC plan was approved by the Company’s shareholders at the Annual Meeting on June 16, 2010.

On August 1, 2011, the Company entered into a cognovit promissory note with Keystone Ruby, LLC, the Landlord of its Solon facility, in the amount of $0.3 million for past due rent. The balance is to be paid over 72 equal installments ending on April, 2017. However, the terms of the note call for an immediate payment of the remaining principal balance if the Company does not renew its lease by December 31, 2013. The interest rate on the loan is 10.0% per annum.

On March 30, 2010, the Company entered into an agreement with EF Energy Partners LLC (“EF Energy”), an Ohio limited liability company, under which it sold to EF Energy a Secured Subordinated Promissory Note (“Subordinated Note”) for the principal amount of $1.2 million. The Company secured the full amount of this financing with a pledge of its United States gross accounts receivable and selected capital equipment. This Subordinated Note bears interest at a rate of 12.5%, which is payable quarterly, in arrears, commencing September 30, 2010. The entire outstanding principal balance of this Subordinated Note, together with all accrued interest thereon, is due and payable on March 30, 2013. Additionally, the Company issued to the eight investors in EF Energy five-year, detached penny warrants ($.01 per share) to purchase shares of its common stock at a rate of 0.2 warrants per dollar of financing, or 230,000 warrants, with an expiration date of March 30, 2015. On December 22, 2011, this agreement was amended by an Inter-creditor Agreement among EF Energy Partners, Rosenthal & Rosenthal and the Company. Per the terms of the Inter-creditor Agreement, the Company paid $0.9 million of the principal to EF Energy Partners, leaving a principal balance of approximately $0.3 million as of December 31, 2011. On March 30, 2012, the remaining principal due to EF Energy was paid in full. The Company and EF Energy Partners are not related.

In conjunction with the acquisition of SRC on December 31, 2009, the Company entered into an agreement with TLC Investments, LLC (“TLC”), whereby a convertible promissory note (“Convertible Note”) was issued for the principal amount of $0.5 million. This Convertible Note bears interest at the Wall Street Journal Prime Rate plus two percent (2%), which along with the principal, is due and payable on June 30, 2013 (“maturity date”). Additionally, TLC has the right to convert the principal of the Convertible Note, in whole, into 500,000 shares of the Company’s common stock at any time during the period commencing on June 30, 2010 and through the maturity date. Additionally, as a provision to the Convertible Note, if the reported closing price of a share of common stock of the Company shall not be equal to or greater than $2.00 for at least twenty (20) trading days between June 30, 2010 and June 30, 2013, the Company shall pay TLC an additional fee of $0.5 million on the maturity date. The Convertible Note is secured by a first-lien-position security interest in the assets of SRC.

On December 29, 2009, and in conjunction with the acquisition of SRC, the Company entered into Letter of Credit Agreements (“LOC’s”) with John Davenport, President of our Company, and with The Quercus Trust (“Quercus”), for $0.3 million and $0.3 million, respectively. These LOC’s have terms of 24 months and bear interest at a rate of 12.5% on the face amount. The LOC’s are collateralized by a percentage of the capital stock of Crescent Lighting Ltd. (“CLL”) which in turn is based on CLL’s net worth as of November 30, 2009, and is subordinated to the senior indebtedness of the Company and CLL. As an incentive to enter into the LOC’s, the Company issued five-year, detached warrants to purchase 125,000 and 150,000, respectively, of common stock at an exercise price of $0.01 per share. The Company’s shareholders approved the warrants at the Annual Meeting on June 16, 2010. On December 21, 2011, the LOC with John Davenport was amended to extend the due date of the LOC from December 31, 2011 to a month by month basis as long as interest continued to be earned at 12.5%. The LOC was subsequently paid on March 5, 2012. As of December 31, 2011, the Company was in default with the LOC with Quercus. On March 2, 2012, the LOC due to Quercus was paid in full.

On May 27, 2009, the Company entered into an unsecured Promissory Note (“Note”) with Quercus in the amount of $70 thousand. Under the terms of this Note, the Company is obligated to pay Quercus the principal sum of the Note and interest accruing at a yearly rate of 1.00% in one lump sum payment on or before June 1, 2109. The Company received these funds on June 9, 2009.

Through The Company’s United Kingdom subsidiary, it maintains a British pounds sterling-denominated bank overdraft facility with Lloyds Bank Plc, in the amount of £100,000, which was approximately $0.2 million based on the exchange rate at March 31, 2012. There were no borrowings against this facility as of March 31, 2012 or December 31, 2011. This facility is renewed annually in May. The interest rate on this facility in 2012 was 3.60%, based on a variable interest rate equal to the Bank of England’s Bank Rate, which was 0.50% at March 31, 2012, plus 3.10%. The interest rate on the facility at December 31, 2011 was also 3.60%.

Future maturities of remaining borrowings are (in thousands):

Year ending December 31,	Long-Term Borrowings
2012 April through December	$	37
2013		804
2014		59
2015		65
2016		72
2017 and thereafter		96
Gross long-term borrowings		1,133
Less: discounts on long-term borrowings		(117	)
Total commitment, net		1,016
Less: portion classified as current		(50	)
Long-term borrowings, net	$	966