As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 20, 2009

                                                                                                                                       Registration  No. 333-76614


SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

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POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1
ON
FORM S-3
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

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ACORN ENERGY, INC.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
 
         
Delaware
 
7371
 
22-2786081
(State or Other Jurisdiction of
 
(Primary Standard Industrial
 
(I.R.S. Employer
Incorporation or Organization)
 
Classification Code Number)
 
Identification No.)

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4 West Rockland Road
Montchanin, Delaware 19710
(302) 656-1707

(Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)

 
John A. Moore
President and Chief Executive Officer
Acorn Energy, Inc.
4 West Rockland Road
Montchanin, Delaware 19710
(302) 656-1707

(Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)

With a copy to:
 
Sheldon Krause, Esq.
Eilenberg Krause & Paul LLP
11 East 44th Street , 19th Floor
New York, New York 10017
(212) 986-9700

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale of the securities to the public: Not applicable.

If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box. ¨

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box. ¨

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ¨

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ¨

If this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction I.D. or a post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act, check the following box. ¨
 
If this Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction I.D. filed to register additional securities or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box.  ¨
 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company.  See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.  (Check one):
 
Large accelerated filer ¨   Accelerated filer ¨   Non-accelerated filer ¨   Smaller reporting company x

 
 

 
 
DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

On January 11, 2002, Acorn Energy, Inc. (the “Registrant”) filed a registration statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-76614) (the “Registration Statement”), which registered shares of its common stock for resale by the selling security holders named therein. The Registrant’s contractual obligation to maintain the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has terminated. Pursuant to the undertaking contained in the Registration Statement, the Registrant is filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to deregister and remove from registration all securities registered pursuant to the Registration Statement that remain unsold as of the date this post-effective amendment is filed.


 
 

 
 
SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 on Form S-3 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the Township of Montchanin, State of Delaware, on this 20th day of March, 2009.
 
 
ACORN ENERGY, INC.
 
       
 
By:
/s/ Joe B. Cogdell, Jr.  
    Joe B. Cogdell, Jr.  
    Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary