---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-26-003005"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ACFN"
cik: "0000880984"
company_name: "ACORN ENERGY, INC."
filed_at: "2026-01-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T09:25:26.971104+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Acorn Energy extends CEO and CFO consulting agreements; grants options and bonuses

## Summary
- CEO Jan Loeb: $207,400 annual cash + $10,300/mo for OmniMetrix role; 25,000 options at $19.02.
- CFO/COO Tracy Clifford: $222,789 annual cash; 25,000 options at $19.02 with annual refresher grants.
- Both executives receive 5% of 2025 gross cash bonus for AIO Systems technology partnership.
- Non-employee director compensation amended: annual grant of 3,125 options vesting quarterly.
- Loeb and Clifford remain consultants, not employees; agreements run through 2026 with auto-renewal.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-26-003005
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ACFN
- cik: 0000880984
- company_name: ACORN ENERGY, INC.
- filed_at: 2026-01-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/880984/000149315226003005/0001493152-26-003005-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/880984/000149315226003005/form8-k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001493152-26-003005.txt

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