On January 9, 2018, Real Goods Solar, Inc. filed a definitive proxy statement soliciting proxies and urged the shareholders to vote for the election of its nominees as directors of the Company and to vote for the Company’s proposal to amend the Company’s 2008 Long-Term Incentive Plan to increase the number of shares authorized for issuance and the number of shares that a participant may receive in a fiscal year at the Company’s 2017 annual meeting of shareholders scheduled to be held on December 14, 2017.