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Note 1 - Nature of Operations | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2014
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Nature of Operations [Text Block] | NOTE 1. NATURE OF OPERATIONS Energy Focus, Inc. and its subsidiaries (the “Company”) engage in the design, development, manufacturing, marketing, and installation of energy-efficient lighting systems and solutions where we have historically served two segments:
| ● | Products: providing military, general commercial and industrial energy-efficient lighting offerings; and
| ● | Solutions: providing turnkey, high-quality, energy-efficient lighting application alternatives, primarily to the existing public-sector building market. During the third quarter of 2014, we began shifting our focus away from the turnkey solutions business to align our resources with developing and selling our LED products.

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