Amendment: SEC Form S-3/A filed by Ascent Solar Technologies Inc.

As filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on February 9, 2025.

Registration No. 333-293097

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

12300 Grant Street

Thornton, Colorado 80241

(720) 872-5000

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

Jin Jo

Chief Financial Officer

Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc.

12300 Grant Street

Thornton, Colorado 80241

(720) 872-5000

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Please send a copy of all communications to:

James H. Carroll, Esq.

Carroll Legal LLC

1449 Wynkoop Street, Suite 507

Denver, CO 80202

(303) 888-4859

Approximate date of commencement proposed sale to the public: From time to time after the effective date of this Registration Statement.

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The Registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this Registration Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 or until this Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc.. (the “Company”) is filing this Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 (the “Amendment”) to its Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-293097) (the “Registration Statement”) as an exhibits-only filing to file an updated auditor consent in Exhibit 23.1. Accordingly, this Amendment consists only of the facing page, this explanatory note, Item 16 of Part II of the Registration Statement, including the signature page and the exhibit index, and the filed exhibits. The prospectus is unchanged and has been omitted.

Item 16. Exhibits.

The following exhibits are filed with this Registration Statement.

The agreements included or incorporated by reference as exhibits to this registration statement contain representations and warranties by each of the parties to the applicable agreement. These representations and warranties were made solely for the benefit of the other parties to the applicable agreement and (i) were not intended to be treated as categorical statements of fact, but rather as a way of allocating the risk to one of the parties if those statements prove to be inaccurate; (ii) may have been qualified in such agreement by disclosures that were made to the other party in connection with the negotiation of the applicable agreement; (iii) may apply contract standards of “materiality” that are different from “materiality” under the applicable securities laws; and (iv) were made only as of the date of the applicable agreement or such other date or dates as may be specified in the agreement.

The undersigned registrant acknowledges that, notwithstanding the inclusion of the foregoing cautionary statements, it is responsible for considering whether additional specific disclosures of material information regarding material contractual provisions are required to make the statements in this registration statement not misleading.

 SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the city of Thornton, State of Colorado, on this 9th day of February, 2026.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

* Jin Jo, by signing her name hereto, does hereby sign this document on behalf of each of the persons named above pursuant to the powers of attorney filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.