---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000924168-22-000100"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EFOI"
cik: "0000924168"
company_name: "ENERGY FOCUS, INC/DE"
filed_at: "2022-12-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-20T23:46:16.956153+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Energy Focus issues $100K promissory note to Jay Huang at 8%, maturing Sept 2023

## Summary
- Principal $100,000, 8% annual interest, due September 21, 2023.
- Prepayment permitted in whole or in part at any time.
- Default interest rate steps to 10%; holder may accelerate upon default.
- Lender Jay Huang is a related party? Not specified in filing.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000924168-22-000100
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EFOI
- cik: 0000924168
- company_name: ENERGY FOCUS, INC/DE
- filed_at: 2022-12-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/924168/000092416822000100/0000924168-22-000100-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/924168/000092416822000100/efoi-20221221.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000924168-22-000100
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000924168-22-000100.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000924168-22-000100.txt

## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  ENERGY FOCUS, INC/DE incurred debt of original principal amount of $100,000 with Jay Huang at bears interest at an annual rate of eight percent maturing maturity date of nine months from the date of issuance.
  - Principal: original principal amount of $100,000
  - Counterparty: Jay Huang
  - Rate: bears interest at an annual rate of eight percent
  - Maturity: maturity date of nine months from the date of issuance
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: Agreement . On December 21, 2022, Energy Focus, Inc. (the “Company”) issued a short-term Promissory Note in favor of Jay Huang (the “Lender”) in the original principal amount of $100,000 (the “Note”). The following is a summary of certain terms of the Note and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by, the Note in Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/924168/000092416822000100/0000924168-22-000100-index.htm
- Material Agreements
  ENERGY FOCUS, INC/DE entered into Promissory Note with Jay Huang valued at $100,000 (effective 2022-12-21).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: notes offering
  - Counterparty: Jay Huang
  - Value: $100,000
  - Effective: 2022-12-21
  source text: On December 21, 2022, Energy Focus, Inc. (the “Company”) issued a short-term Promissory Note in favor of Jay Huang (the “Lender”) in the original principal amount of $100,000 (the “Note”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/924168/000092416822000100/0000924168-22-000100-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.