Subsequent Events	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2011
Subsequent Events [Abstract]
Subsequent Events [Text Block]	Note 12 – Subsequent Events In December of 2011, the Company approved a Consent to Desk Audit Adjustment providing the Company with a New York State Qualified Emerging Technology Company tax credit of $159,395 for the year ended December 31, 2010. The cash refund was received and recorded as income by the Company in January 2012. In January of 2012, we were awarded a $922,000 U.S. Army contract to be the prime contractor to complete Phase One activities for the development of a new Intelligent Micro-Grid. Arista Power will develop the Intelligent Micro-Grid for the Renewable Energy for Distributed Under-Supplied Command Environments (“REDUCE”) program under the guidance of the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center. In March 2012, we issued 119,191 shares of our common stock to strategic vendor-investors in lieu of cash for goods and services totaling $251,854. On March 7, 2012, our Board of Directors approved a private placement for the sale of up to 100 units, with each unit costing no less than $15,000 and consisting of 7,500 shares of the Company’s common stock and a warrant to purchase 1,000 shares of the Company’s common stock at $10.00 per share. Each warrant vests two years from the date of purchase of the applicable unit, and has a ten-year life. Each purchaser of units in this private placement is required to agree to not sell any shares of common stock purchased in the private placement for at least one year. On March 14, 2012, the Company sold 14 units, which yielded $210,000.

In December of 2011, the Company approved a Consent to Desk Audit Adjustment providing the Company with a New York State Qualified Emerging Technology Company tax credit of $159,395 for the year ended December 31, 2010. The cash refund was received and recorded as income by the Company in January 2012.

In January of 2012, we were awarded a $922,000 U.S. Army contract to be the prime contractor to complete Phase One activities for the development of a new Intelligent Micro-Grid. Arista Power will develop the Intelligent Micro-Grid for the Renewable Energy for Distributed Under-Supplied Command Environments (“REDUCE”) program under the guidance of the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center.

In March 2012, we issued 119,191 shares of our common stock to strategic vendor-investors in lieu of cash for goods and services totaling $251,854.

On March 7, 2012, our Board of Directors approved a private placement for the sale of up to 100 units, with each unit costing no less than $15,000 and consisting of 7,500 shares of the Company’s common stock and a warrant to purchase 1,000 shares of the Company’s common stock at $10.00 per share. Each warrant vests two years from the date of purchase of the applicable unit, and has a ten-year life. Each purchaser of units in this private placement is required to agree to not sell any shares of common stock purchased in the private placement for at least one year. On March 14, 2012, the Company sold 14 units, which yielded $210,000.