UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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Aemetis, Inc.
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The number of shares outstanding of the registrant’s Common Stock on April 30, 2025, was
FORM 10-Q
Quarterly Period Ended March 31, 2025
SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
We make forward-looking statements in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, including statements regarding our assumptions, projections, expectations, targets, intentions, or beliefs about future events or other statements that are not historical facts. Forward-looking statements in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q include, without limitation, statements regarding management’s plans; trends in market conditions with respect to prices for inputs for our products and prices for our products; our ability to leverage approved feedstock pathways; our ability to leverage our location and infrastructure; our ability to incorporate lower-cost, non-food advanced biofuels feedstock at the Keyes Plant; our ability to expand into alternative markets for biodiesel and its byproducts, including continuing to expand our sales into international markets; our ability to maintain and expand strategic relationships with suppliers; our ability to access governmental carbon reduction incentives; our ability to supply gas into transportation markets; our ability to continue to develop, maintain, and protect new and existing intellectual property rights; our ability to adopt, develop and commercialize new technologies; our ability to extend or refinance our senior debt on terms reasonably acceptable to us or at all; our ability to continue to fund operations and our future sources of liquidity and capital resources; our ability to fund, develop, build, maintain and operate digesters, facilities and pipelines for our California Dairy Renewable Natural Gas segment; our ability to fund, develop and operate our carbon capture sequestration projects, including obtaining required permits; our ability to receive awarded grants by meeting all of the required conditions, including meeting the minimum contributions; our ability to obtain additional financing under the EB-5 program; our ability to generate and sell or utilize various credits, including LCFS, D3 RINs, production tax credits, and investment tax credits; our ability to improve margins; and our ability to raise additional debt and equity funding at the parent, subsidiary, or project level. Words or phrases such as “anticipates,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “could,” “believes,” “estimates,” “expects,” “intends,” “plans,” “predicts,” “projects,” “targets,” “will likely result,” “will continue” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on current assumptions and predictions and are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties. Actual results or events could differ materially from those set forth or implied by such forward-looking statements and related assumptions due to certain factors, including, without limitation, the risks set forth under the caption “Risk Factors” below, which are incorporated herein by reference, as well as those business risks and factors described elsewhere in this report and in our other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), including without limitation, our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
PART I - FINANCIAL INFORMATION
AEMETIS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED CONDENSED BALANCE SHEETS
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| Total liabilities and stockholders' deficit | $ | $ | ||||||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
AEMETIS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED CONDENSED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
AEMETIS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED CONDENSED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
AEMETIS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ DEFICIT
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
1. General
Nature of Activities
Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Cupertino, California, Aemetis, Inc. (collectively with its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis referred to herein as “Aemetis,” the “Company,” “we,” “our” or “us”) is an international renewable natural gas and renewable fuels company focused on the operation, acquisition, development, and commercialization of innovative technologies to produce low and negative carbon intensity renewable fuels that replace petroleum products and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. We do this by building a local circular bioeconomy using agricultural products and waste to produce low carbon, advanced renewable fuels that reduce greenhouse gas ("GHG") emissions and improve air quality. Our current operations include:
► California Ethanol – We own and operate a 65 million gallon per year capacity ethanol production facility in Keyes, California (the “Keyes Plant”). In addition to low carbon renewable fuel ethanol, the Keyes Plant produces Wet Distillers Grains (“WDG”), Distillers Corn Oil (“DCO”), and Condensed Distillers Solubles (“CDS”), all of which are sold as animal feed to local dairies and feedlots. The Keyes Plant also sells CO₂ that is processed into commercial grade for use in food, beverage, and other industries. We are implementing several energy efficiency initiatives at the Keyes Plant focused on reducing operating costs and lowering the carbon intensity of our ethanol to increase revenues.
► California Dairy Renewable Natural Gas – We produce Renewable Natural Gas (“RNG”) in central California. We currently have eleven anaerobic digesters that produce biogas from dairy waste, a 36-mile biogas collection pipeline leading to a central RNG production facility, and an interconnection to inject the RNG into the utility natural gas pipeline for delivery for use as transportation fuel. We are actively expanding our RNG production, with several additional dairy digesters under construction, agreements with a total of 50 dairies, and a completed environmental review for an additional 24 miles of biogas pipeline. We are also building our own RNG fuel dispensing station, which is planned to begin operating in 2025.
► India Biodiesel – We own and operate a plant in Kakinada, India (“Kakinada Plant”) with a capacity to produce about 80 million gallons per year of high-quality distilled biodiesel from a variety of vegetable oil and animal waste feedstocks. The Kakinada Plant is one of the largest biodiesel production facilities in India. The Kakinada Plant also distills the crude glycerin byproduct from the biodiesel refining process into refined glycerin that is sold to the pharmaceutical, personal care, paint, adhesive, and other industries.
In addition, we are actively growing our business by seeking to develop or acquire new facilities, including the following key projects:
► Sustainable Aviation Fuel and Renewable Diesel – We are developing a sustainable aviation fuel (“SAF”) and renewable diesel (“RD”) production plant to be located at the Riverbank Industrial Complex in Riverbank, CA. The plant is currently designed to produce 90 million gallons per year of RD or 78 million gallons per year of SAF from renewable vegetable and animal oils obtained from the Company’s other biofuels plants and other sources. The plant is designed to use low-carbon hydroelectric electricity and renewable hydrogen that will be generated from byproducts of SAF/RD production. We received the Use Permit and California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) approvals for the development of the plant in September 2023 and the Authority to Construct air permits in March 2024. We are continuing with the engineering and other required development activities for the facility.
► Carbon Capture and Underground Sequestration – We are developing a Carbon Capture and Underground Sequestration (“CCUS”) facility, also to be located at the Riverbank Industrial Complex, that is designed to inject carbon dioxide more than one mile underground for geologic storage to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere that contribute to global warming. In May 2023, the Company received a permit from the State of California to drill a geologic characterization well that will provide information required for the design and permitting of a CCUS well. The Company has completed the first phase of drilling for the characterization well and plans to construct the characterization well in 2025. The Company is continuing engineering, permitting and other development activities for the permanent sequestration injection and monitoring wells.
The Company’s current and planned businesses produce renewable fuels and reduce emissions, generating revenues from biofuel sales, federal Renewable Fuel Standard ("RFS") credits, California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (“LCFS”) credits, and federal investment and production tax credits.
Basis of Presentation and Consolidation
These consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Aemetis, Inc. and its subsidiaries. We consolidate all entities in which we have a controlling financial interest. A controlling financial interest is usually obtained through ownership of a majority of the voting interests. However, an enterprise must consolidate a variable interest entity (“VIE”) if the enterprise is the primary beneficiary of the VIE, even if the enterprise does not own a majority of the voting interests. The primary beneficiary is the party that has both the power to direct the activities of the VIE that most significantly impact the VIE’s economic performance, and the obligation to absorb losses or the right to receive benefits from the VIE that could potentially be significant to the VIE. We consider Aemetis Biogas LLC ("ABGL") to be a VIE because the Company owns all of the outstanding common units of ABGL and is the primary beneficiary of ABGL's operations; accordingly, the assets, liabilities, and operations of ABGL and its subsidiaries are consolidated in these financial statements.
All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
The accompanying consolidated condensed balance sheet as of March 31, 2025, the consolidated condensed statements of operations and comprehensive income (loss) for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, the consolidated condensed statements of cash flows for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, and the consolidated statements of stockholders’ deficit for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, are unaudited. The consolidated condensed balance sheet as of December 31, 2024, is derived from the 2024 audited consolidated financial statements and notes thereto.
The financial statements in this report should be read in conjunction with the 2024 audited consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024. There have been no material changes to our significant accounting policies disclosed in Note 1 - Nature of Activities and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies and other Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024.
The accompanying consolidated condensed financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“U.S. GAAP”) and pursuant to the rules and regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP have been condensed or omitted pursuant to such rules and regulations. In the opinion of Company’s management, the unaudited interim consolidated condensed financial statements as of and for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, have been prepared on the same basis as the audited consolidated statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2024 and reflect all adjustments, consisting primarily of normal recurring adjustments, necessary for the fair presentation of its statement of financial position, results of operations and cash flows. The results of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2025, are not necessarily indicative of the operating results for any subsequent quarter, for the full fiscal year, or any future periods.
Investment Tax Credits
In the first quarter of 2025 the Company sold to third-party purchasers certain transferrable Investment Tax Credits (ITCs) that had been generated by the Company from its investments in the California Dairy Renewable Natural Gas segment. The Company accounted for the ITC sales in accordance with ASC 740 by electing the flow-through method. For the three months ended March 31, 2025, the contractual net proceeds of the tax credits sales of $
2. Cash, Cash Equivalents, and Restricted Cash
The following table reconciles cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash reported in the consolidated balance sheet to the total of the same amounts shown in the statement of cash flows.
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Restricted cash shown in the table above includes amounts set aside pursuant to the Aemetis Biogas 1 LLC Term Loan Agreement and the Aemetis Biogas 2 LLC Construction and Term Loan Agreement for financing reserves and construction contingencies.
3. Inventories
Inventories consist of the following:
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4. Property, Plant and Equipment
Property, plant and equipment consist of the following:
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For the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, interest capitalized in property, plant and equipment was $
Construction in progress includes biogas dairy digesters, the Riverbank sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel plant, carbon capture and underground sequestration facilities, and energy efficiency projects at the Keyes Plant. Property held for development is the partially completed Goodland Plant. Depreciation begins for each project when construction is complete and the project is placed into service, and is calculated using the straight-line method to allocate the depreciable amount over the estimated useful life of the applicable asset as follows:
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5. Debt
Debt consists of the following:
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Third Eye Capital Keyes Notes. On July 6, 2012, Aemetis, Inc., Aemetis Advanced Fuels Keyes, Inc. (“AAFK”), and Aemetis Facility Keyes, Inc. (“AFK”) entered into an Amended and Restated Note Purchase Agreement (the “Note Purchase Agreement”) with Third Eye Capital Corporation ("Third Eye Capital"). Pursuant to the Note Purchase Agreement, Third Eye Capital, as administrative agent on behalf of several noteholders, extended credit in the form of (i) senior secured term loans in an aggregate principal amount of approximately $
| A. | Term Notes. The Term Notes accrue interest at |
| B. | Revolving Credit Facility. The Revolving Credit Facility accrues interest at prime rate plus |
| C. | Revolving Notes Series B. The Revolving Notes Series B accrue interest at prime rate plus |
| D. | Revenue Participation Term Notes. The Revenue Participation Term Notes accrue interest at |
| E. | Acquisition Term Notes. The Acquisition Term Notes accrue interest at prime rate plus |
The Third Eye Capital Keyes Notes contain various covenants, including but not limited to, debt to plant value ratio, minimum production requirements, and restrictions on capital expenditures. The terms of the Notes allow the lender to accelerate the maturity in the event of a default that could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the Company, such as any change in the business, operations, or financial condition. The Company has evaluated the likelihood of such an acceleration event and determined such an event to not be probable in the next twelve months. The notes allow interest to be added to the outstanding principal balance. The notes are secured by first priority liens on all real and personal property of, assignment of proceeds from all government grants, and guarantees from the Company’s North American subsidiaries except for Aemetis Biogas LLC and its subsidiaries and contain cross-collateral and cross-default provisions. McAfee Capital, LLC (“McAfee Capital”), owned by Eric McAfee, the Company’s Chairman and CEO, provided a guaranty of payment and performance secured by all Company shares owned by McAfee Capital and additional assets, and Mr. McAfee has also provided a personal guaranty of up to $
Third Eye Capital Credit Facilities for Fuels and Carbon Revolving Lines. On March 2, 2022, Goodland Advanced Fuels, Inc. ("GAFI") and Aemetis Carbon Capture, Inc. (“ACCI”) entered into an Amended and Restated Credit Agreement (“Credit Agreement”) with Third Eye Capital, as administrative agent and collateral agent, and the lender parties thereto that provides two credit lines, one with GAFI (the “Fuels Revolving Line”) and a second with ACCI (the “Carbon Revolving Line”). Loans received under the Fuels Revolving Line had an original maturity date of March 1, 2025, and are now due on demand. They accrue interest per annum at a rate equal to the greater of (i) the prime rate plus
Cilion Purchase Obligation. In connection with the Company’s merger with Cilion, Inc. (“Cilion”), on July 6, 2012, the Company incurred a $
Subordinated Notes. On January 6 and January 9, 2012, AAFK entered into Note and Warrant Purchase Agreements with two accredited investors pursuant to which it issued $
EB-5 Promissory Notes. EB-5 is a U.S. government program authorized by the Immigration and Nationality Act that is designed to foster employment-based visa preference for immigrant investors to encourage the flow of capital into the U.S. economy and to promote employment of U.S. workers. The Company entered into a Note Purchase Agreement dated March 4, 2011 (as further amended on January 19, 2012 and July 24, 2012) with Advanced BioEnergy, LP, a California limited partnership authorized by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services as a Regional Center to receive EB-5 investments, for the issuance of up to 72 subordinated convertible promissory notes (the “EB-5 Notes”) bearing interest at 2 to 3%. The EB-5 Notes are convertible into Aemetis, Inc. common stock at a conversion price of $
In 2016 the Company launched its EB-5 Phase II funding (the "EB-5 Phase II Funding") and entered into certain Note Purchase Agreements with Advanced BioEnergy II, LP, a California limited partnership authorized to receive EB-5 equity funding investments. The Company received $
In July 2024, in connection with settlement of litigation initiated by a broker previously engaged by Advanced BioEnergy, we entered into an agreement to pay the broker certain of its claimed fees. In April 2025, that broker initiated litigation against Aemetis, Inc. to collect $2.3 million (plus interest and fees) under the agreement. The liability previously accrued for the amount at issue in the litigation has been reclassified from debt as of December 31, 2024, to other current liabilities as of March 31, 2025.
India Biodiesel Secured and Unsecured Loans. On November 13, 2023, the Company entered into a secured loan agreement with a trade partner in an amount not to exceed $
Aemetis Biogas 1 LLC Term Loan. On October 4, 2022, the Company entered into a Construction Loan Agreement ("AB1 Construction Loan") pursuant to which the lender made available an aggregate principal amount of $
Aemetis Biogas 2 LLC Construction and Term Loan. On July 28, 2023, the Company entered into a Construction and Term Loan Agreement ("AB2 Loan"), pursuant to which the lender has made available an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $
Jessup land acquisition notes. In connection with the Company's acquisition of land in November 2024, the Company entered into two installment note agreements with private lenders totaling $
Maturity Date Schedule
The following table shows scheduled repayments for the Company’s debt obligations by year:
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Basic net income (loss) per share is computed by dividing income or loss attributable to common stockholders by the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding for the period. Diluted net income (loss) per share reflects the dilution of common stock equivalents such as options, convertible debt, and warrants to the extent the impact is dilutive. The following table shows the number of potentially dilutive shares excluded from the diluted net income (loss) per share calculation as of March 31, 2025 and 2024:
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Across all segments, revenue is recognized at the point in time when performance obligations have been met. Accounts receivable for all segments represent invoicing for products with varying payment terms, but with no variable consideration or financing. The opening balance of accounts receivable for all segments as of January 1, 2025 and 2024, was $
8. Leases
The Company is a party to operating leases for the Company's corporate office in Cupertino, modular offices, and laboratory facilities. We have also entered into several finance leases for mobile equipment and for the Riverbank Industrial Complex. These finance leases have a purchase option at the end of the term that we are reasonably certain we will exercise, so the leases are classified as finance leases. All of our leases have remaining terms of year to
The Company evaluates leases in accordance with ASC 842 – Lease Accounting. When discount rates implicit in leases cannot be readily determined, we use the applicable incremental borrowing rate at lease commencement to perform lease classification tests on lease components and to measure lease liabilities and right of use (ROU) assets. The incremental borrowing rate used by the Company is based on weighted average baseline rates commensurate with the Company’s secured borrowing rate, over a similar term. At each reporting period when there is a new lease initiated, the rates established for that quarter are used.
The components of lease expense are as follows:
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Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities:
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Supplemental non-cash flow information related to ROU asset and lease liabilities was as follows for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024:
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Supplemental balance sheet information related to leases is as follows:
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Maturities of operating and finance lease liabilities are as follows:
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| Total lease liability | $ | $ | ||||||
The Company acts as sublessor in certain leasing arrangements, primarily related to land and buildings. Fixed sublease payments received are recognized on a straight-line basis over the sublease term. Sublease income and head lease expense for these transactions are recognized on a net basis on the consolidated financial statements. Sublease income is recorded in the General and Administrative Expense section of the Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss.
The components of lease income are as follows for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively:
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Future lease commitments to be received by the Company as of March 31, 2025, are as follows:
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9. Stock Based Compensation
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10. Warrants to Purchase Common Stock
On January 1, 2025, the maturity dates on two accredited investor's Subordinated Notes were extended to June 30, 2025. In connection with the extension, the Company issued the noteholders warrants exercisable for the purchase of
The following table summarizes warrant activity during the three months ending March 31, 2025:
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All of the above outstanding warrants are fully vested and exercisable as of March 31, 2025.
The fair value calculations for issued warrants are based on the following weighted average factors:
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11. Aemetis Biogas LLC – Series A Preferred Financing
12. Agreements
J.D. Heiskell Working Capital Agreements. Pursuant to a Corn Procurement and Working Capital Agreement with J.D. Heiskell, the Company procures whole yellow corn from J.D. Heiskell. The Company has the ability to obtain grain from other sources subject to certain conditions; however, in the past all the Company’s grain purchases have been from J.D. Heiskell. Title and risk of loss of the corn pass to the Company when the corn is deposited into the Keyes Plant weigh bin. Pursuant to a separate agreement entered in May 2023, J.D. Heiskell also purchases all of our ethanol, WDG, corn oil, and CDS and sells them to marketing companies designated by us. We have designated Murex to purchase and market ethanol and A.L. Gilbert to purchase and market WDG and corn oil. The Company’s relationships with J.D. Heiskell, Murex, and A.L. Gilbert are well established, and the Company believes that the relationships are beneficial to all parties involved in utilizing the distribution logistics, reaching a widespread customer base, managing inventory, and providing working capital relationships.
The following table summarizes the J.D. Heiskell purchase and sales activity during the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024:
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The agreements with J.D. Heiskell, Murex, and A.L. Gilbert include marketing and transportation services. For the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company expensed marketing costs of $
Supply Trade Agreement. On July 1, 2022, the Company entered into an operating agreement with Gemini Edibles and Fats India Private Limited (“Gemini”) pursuant to which Gemini supplies the Company with feedstock up to a credit limit of $
Forward Sale Commitments. As of March 31, 2025, we have
Natural Gas Purchase Agreement. As of March 31, 2025, we have a forward purchase agreement in place to buy approximately
13. Segment Information
Aemetis recognizes reportable segments: “California Ethanol,” “California Dairy Renewable Natural Gas,” and “India Biodiesel.”
The “California Ethanol” segment includes the Company’s
The “California Dairy Renewable Natural Gas” segment includes the production and sale of Renewable Natural Gas ("RNG") and associated environmental attributes, consisting of anaerobic digesters located at dairies, a 36-mile biogas collection pipeline, a biogas upgrading hub that produces RNG from the biogas, a pipeline interconnect, and ongoing construction of additional digesters.
The “India Biodiesel” segment includes the Company’s
The Company has additional operating segments that were determined not to be separately reportable segments, including our key projects under development which consist of a sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel production in Riverbank and Carbon Capture and Underground Sequestration wells in California. Additionally, our corporate offices, Goodland Plant in Kansas, Riverbank Industrial Complex management, and our research and development facility in Minnesota are included in the “All Other” category.
The following tables summarize financial information by reportable segment for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024:
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14. Related Party Transactions
The Company owes Eric McAfee, the Company’s Chairman and CEO, and McAfee Capital LLC (“McAfee Capital”), owned by Eric McAfee, $
15. Subsequent Events
On May 7, 2025, Aemetis Biogas LLC ("ABGL") entered into an agreement entitled Ninth Waiver and Amendment to Series A Preferred Unit Purchase Agreement ("PUPA Ninth Amendment") with an effective date of April 30, 2025, that provides, among other provisions, the requirement for ABGL to redeem all outstanding Series A Preferred Units by August 31, 2025, for an aggregate redemption price of $
16. Liquidity
The accompanying financial statements have been prepared contemplating the realization of assets and satisfaction of liabilities in the normal course of business. As a result of negative capital, negative operating results, and collateralization of a substantial portion of our assets, we have been reliant on our senior secured lender to provide extensions to the maturity dates of its debt and loan facilities, and have been required to remit excess cash, principally from tax credit sales, to our senior secured lender. In order to meet our obligations during the next twelve months, we will need to refinance debt with our senior lender for amounts becoming due in the next twelve months or receive its continued cooperation. While we believe our India biodiesel and California RNG businesses will generate positive cash flow from operations and reduce cash demands and allow payments against other obligations, we will also continue to sell equity through our at-the-market registration and pursue the following strategies to improve liquidity:
For the Keyes Plant, we plan to operate the plant and continue to improve its financial performance by adopting new technologies or process changes that allow for energy efficiency, cost reduction, or revenue enhancements, as well as execute upon awarded grants that improve energy and operational efficiencies resulting in lower cost, lower carbon emissions, and overall margin improvement. As part of this, we are constructing a mechanical vapor recompression project that will reduce the Keyes Plant's natural gas costs and increase revenue by lowering the carbon intensity of the ethanol produced. This project is expected to become operational in the first half of 2026.
For Aemetis Biogas, we plan to operate our existing biogas digesters to produce and sell Renewable Natural Gas and the associated environmental attributes. We are continuing to build new dairy digesters and pipeline extensions that generate new and growing sources of revenue and cash. We also expect revenue to increase as the California Air Resource Board validates our LCFS pathway applications. We are seeking debt from a variety of sources to continue the construction of additional digesters.
For the Kakinada Plant, we plan to continue to sell our biodiesel to Oil Marketing Companies ("OMCs") to help them achieve government mandates to increase the percentage of biodiesel used in India as a percentage of total diesel uses. We are also continuing to upgrade the plant to increase feedstock flexibility (and thereby lower feedstock costs), increase production capacity, and produce new products. Additionally, we have hired a new executive team in India to help execute on a potential public stock offering of our India subsidiary and to develop plans for additional growth.
We plan to continue to locate funding for existing and new business opportunities through a combination of working with our senior lender, restructuring or refinancing existing loan agreements, entering into additional debt agreements for specific projects, and obtaining project specific equity and debt for development projects, and obtaining additional debt from the current EB-5 Phase II offering.
After consideration of our strategies and the uncertainty as to whether certain elements will ultimately be implemented or effective, and considering our need to secure additional financing, substantial doubt about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern remains.
Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Our Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (MD&A) is provided in addition to the accompanying consolidated condensed financial statements and notes to assist readers in understanding our results of operations, financial condition, and cash flows. MD&A is organized as follows:
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Overview. Discussion of our business and overall analysis of financial and other highlights affecting us, to provide context for the remainder of MD&A. |
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Results of Operations. An analysis of our financial results comparing the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024. |
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Liquidity and Capital Resources. An analysis of changes in our balance sheets and cash flows and discussion of our financial condition. |
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Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates. Accounting policies and estimates that we believe are important to understanding the assumptions and judgments incorporated in our reported financial results and forecasts. |
The following discussion should be read in conjunction with our consolidated condensed financial statements and accompanying notes included elsewhere in this report. The following discussion contains forward-looking statements that reflect our plans, estimates and beliefs. Our actual results could differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to these differences include those discussed below and elsewhere in this Report, particularly under “Part II, Item 1A. Risk Factors,” and in other reports we file with the SEC. All references to years relate to the calendar year ended December 31 of the particular year.
Overview
Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Cupertino, California, we are an international renewable natural gas and biofuels company focused on the operation, acquisition, development and commercialization of innovative low and negative carbon intensity products and technologies. We operate in three reportable segments consisting of “California Ethanol,” “California Dairy Renewable Natural Gas,” and “India Biodiesel.” We have other operating segments determined not to be separately reportable that are collectively represented by the “All Other” category. Our mission is to generate innovative renewable fuel solutions that benefit communities and improve the environment. We are executing our mission by building a circular bioeconomy using agricultural products and waste to produce low carbon renewable fuels that create jobs, reduce greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions and improve air quality. For revenue and other information regarding our operating segments, see Note 13 - Segment Information, of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements of this Form 10-Q.
Our California Ethanol segment consists of a 65 million gallon per year capacity ethanol production facility located in Keyes, California (the “Keyes Plant”) that we own and operate. In addition to low carbon renewable fuel ethanol, the Keyes Plant produces alcohol for other uses, Wet Distillers Grains (“WDG”), Distillers Corn Oil (“DCO”), and Condensed Distillers Solubles (“CDS”). WDG, DCO, and CDS are sold as animal feed to more than 80 local dairies and feedlots. We also capture the Carbon Dioxide (“CO2”) generated by our fermenters and sell it to an industrial gas company to produce liquid CO₂ that it sells to food, beverage, and industrial customers. We are implementing several energy efficiency initiatives focused on lowering the carbon intensity of our ethanol, primarily by decreasing the use of fossil natural gas. Recently completed energy efficiency projects include high efficiency heat exchangers and a solar micro grid. A significant energy efficiency project in progress is the Mechanical Vapor Recompression (MVR) system that will use low carbon electricity instead of natural gas. These changes will reduce our energy costs and will also lower the carbon intensity (CI) of the ethanol we produce and generate increased cash flows from LCFS and tax credits. We have already begun procuring MVR equipment and expect it to be installed later this year and begin operating in the first half of 2026.
Our California Dairy Renewable Natural Gas segment Aemetis Biogas LLC or “ABGL,” operates anaerobic digesters at local dairies near the Keyes Plant (many of whom also purchase WDG produced by the Keyes Plant as animal feed) to produce biogas from dairy waste, transports the biogas by pipeline to the Keyes Plant site, and converts the biogas to Renewable Natural Gas (“RNG”) that is delivered to customers through the utility natural gas pipeline. We currently have eleven operating digesters that receive waste from twelve dairies, and we are actively growing with additional digesters under construction. We have constructed 36 miles of biogas collection pipeline and have received environmental approval to construct an additional 24 miles of pipeline. We currently have agreements to build digesters and receive waste from a total of 50 dairies and are seeking to sign additional agreements with dairies.
Our India Biodiesel segment includes a biodiesel production plant in Kakinada, India (“Kakinada Plant”) with a production capacity of about 80 million gallons per year. The plant produces high quality distilled biodiesel and refined glycerin for customers in India. We believe the Kakinada Plant is one of the highest capacity biodiesel production facilities in India. The Kakinada Plant is capable of processing a variety of vegetable and animal oil waste feedstocks into biodiesel that meets applicable product standards. Our Kakinada Plant also distills the crude glycerin coproduct from the biodiesel refining process into refined glycerin, which is sold to the pharmaceutical, personal care, paint, adhesive, and other industries.
Our "All Other" segment consists of our projects that are under development, including our planned Carbon Capture and Underground Sequestration (CCUS) operations and the planned sustainable aviation fuel ("SAF") and renewable diesel ("RD") plant in Riverbank, California. The All Other segment also includes our research and development facility in Minneapolis, Minnesota, operation of the Riverbank Industrial Complex, and our corporate offices in Cupertino, California.
Our SAF/RD production plant is currently designed to produce 90 million gallons per year of combined SAF/RD or 78 million gallons per year of SAF from feedstocks consisting of renewable waste vegetable and animal oils. Our project is located at the Riverbank Industrial Complex in Riverbank, California. We signed a lease with an option to purchase the Riverbank Industrial Complex in 2021 and took possession of the site in 2022. In 2023, we received a Use Permit and the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA") approval for the SAF/RD plant and in 2024 we received Authority to Construct air permits for the plant. We are continuing with development activities, including engineering, and financing. The site has access to low carbon hydroelectric power, and our plant is designed to use renewable hydrogen that will be produced from byproducts of the SAF/RD production process.
Our planned CCUS projects will compress and inject CO₂ into deep wells that are monitored to ensure the long-term sequestration of carbon underground. California’s Central Valley has been identified as one of the world’s most favorable regions for large-scale CO₂ injection projects due to the subsurface geologic formations that absorb and contain CO₂ gas. The two initial Aemetis CCUS injection projects are being designed to capture and sequester more than two million metric tons per year of CO₂ at the Aemetis biofuels plant sites in Keyes and Riverbank, California. In 2023, we obtained a permit to construct a geologic characterization well at the Riverbank site to obtain information to support an EPA Class VI CO₂ injection well permit application. Once operational, these projects will generate revenue by selling California LCFS credits and federal Internal Revenue Code Section 45Q tax credits.
Our Minneapolis, Minnesota research and development laboratory evaluates and develops technologies that would use low carbon intensity and waste feedstocks to produce low or below zero carbon intensity biofuels and biochemicals. We are focused on processes that extract sugar from cellulosic feedstocks and produce low carbon ethanol, renewable hydrogen, SAF, and RD.
Results of Operations
Three Months Ended March 31, 2025, Compared to Three Months Ended March 31, 2024
Revenues
In our California Ethanol segment, we sell the ethanol, WDG, DCO, and CDS that we produce to J.D. Heiskell, which resells it to customers designated by us. Our finished ethanol tank is leased by J.D. Heiskell and legal title to the product is transferred when we put our ethanol product into the tank. We have designated Murex LLC to purchase and market all of the ethanol and A.L. Gilbert to purchase and market the WDG. Each company resells to third-party customers. We sell the CO2 that we capture from our fermenters to an industrial gas company that produces commercial grade CO2 for distribution.
Most of our California Dairy Renewable Natural Gas segment revenues represented below are from sales of D3 RINs and LCFS credits generated from sales of our RNG for transportation use.
In 2024, all of our India sales of biodiesel were to government owned Oil Marketing Companies ("OMCs"). The OMCs paused purchase when the prior allocations were fulfilled in September 2024 and did not resume purchases until April of 2025. As a result, the Kakinada Plant did not generate revenue from biodiesel sales during the three months ended March 31, 2025, and the sales from that segment represent sales of glycerin and some sales of accumulated feedstocks. The Kakinada Plant resumed shipments of biodiesel in April 2025 and will be able to fulfill a significant number of orders from existing inventories of biodiesel and feedstocks.
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$ | 37,748 | $ | 36,089 | $ | 1,659 | 4.6 | % | ||||||||
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2,443 | 3,792 | (1,349 | ) | (35.6 | )% | ||||||||||
| India Biodiesel |
2,695 | 32,753 | (30,058 | ) | (91.8 | )% | ||||||||||
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$ | 42,886 | $ | 72,634 | $ | (29,748 | ) | (41.0 | )% | |||||||
California Ethanol. For the three months ended March 31, 2025, this segment generated 74% of its revenue from sales of ethanol, 21% from sales of WDG, and 5% from sales of corn oil, CDS, CO₂, and other sales. During the three months ended March 31, 2025, the Keyes plant sold 14.1 million gallons of ethanol at an average price of $1.98 per gallon and 93 thousand tons of WDG at an average price of $86.00 per ton, compared to sales during the three months ended March 31, 2024, when the Keyes plant sold 14.1 million gallons of ethanol at an average price of $1.79 per gallon and 94 thousand tons of WDG at an average price of $98.00 per ton. Overall revenue increased by 4.6% primarily due to increase in the average ethanol sales price.
California Dairy Renewable Natural Gas. During the three months ended March 31, 2025, we sold 70.9 thousand MMBtu ("million British thermal units") of RNG at an average price of $3.65 per MMBtu, compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024, when we sold 60.8 thousand MMBtu of RNG at an average price of $4.02 per MMBtu. During the three months ended March 31, 2025 we sold 388 thousand D3 RINs at an average price of $2.64 per D3 RIN, compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024, when we sold 766 thousand D3 RINs at an average price of $3.08 per RIN. We have been generating LCFS credits associated with the RNG sales based on the default carbon intensity (CI) of negative 150 while our individual dairy CI pathways are waiting for approval from the California Air Resources Board ("CARB"). During the period ended March 31, 2025 we sold 16.0 thousand LCFS credits at an average price of $72.50 each, compared to 18.0 thousand metric tons of LCFS credits at an average price of $66.00 each during the period ended March 31, 2024.
India Biodiesel. For the three months ended March 31, 2025, the Kakinada Plant generated $2.7 million in revenue from sales of feedstock and glycerin. The India biodiesel plant generated $32.8 million in revenue from biodiesel and other sales during the same period in 2024.
Cost of Goods Sold
Cost of goods sold consists primarily of feedstock, energy, chemicals, direct costs (principally labor and labor related costs), and overhead. Depending on the costs of these inputs in comparison to the sales price of our end products, our gross margins at any given time can vary from positive to negative. Overhead includes direct and indirect costs associated with plant operations, including the cost of repairs and maintenance, consumables, maintenance, on-site security, insurance, and depreciation.
Our feedstock for California Ethanol is provided by J.D. Heiskell. Title to the corn passes to us when the corn is deposited into our weigh bin and enters the production process. Our cost of feedstock is established by J.D Heiskell based on market prices and includes rail transportation, local basis costs, and a handling fee paid to J.D. Heiskell. The credit term for the corn purchased from J.D. Heiskell is one day, netted from our product sales. Cost of goods sold also includes the cost of electricity and natural gas, chemicals, maintenance, direct labor, depreciation, and freight.
The feedstock for producing RNG is supplied by dairy operators who lease us land and supply our digesters with their manure in liquid form. Our cost of feedstock is established by manure supply agreements based on the value of the environmental attributes and the number of cows at each dairy.
We procure several different feedstocks for the Kakinada Plant, including stearin, a non-edible feedstock, from neighboring natural oil processing plants. Raw material is received by truck and title passes when the goods are loaded at our vendors’ facilities. Credit terms vary by vendor. However, we generally receive 15 days of credit on the purchases. We purchased crude glycerin in the international market on letters of credit or advance payment terms.
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$ | 42,686 | $ | 41,747 | $ | 939 | 2.2 | % | ||||||||
| California Dairy Renewable Natural Gas |
2,138 | 1,582 | 556 | 35.1 | % | |||||||||||
| India Biodiesel |
3,142 | 29,917 | (26,775 | ) | (89.5 | )% | ||||||||||
| Total |
$ | 47,966 | $ | 73,246 | $ | (25,280 | ) | (34.5 | )% | |||||||
California Ethanol. We ground 4.8 million bushels of corn at an average price of $6.63 per bushel during the three months ended March 31, 2025, compared to 4.9 million bushels of corn at an average price of $6.33 per bushel during the three months ended March 31, 2024. The slight increase in cost of goods sold for the three months ended March 31, 2025, is mainly due to the increase in the cost of corn.
California Dairy Renewable Natural Gas. Cost of goods sold includes dairy manure payments, equipment maintenance, and depreciation. The increase from the first quarter of 2024 to the first quarter of 2025 was primarily due to the increase in the number of operating digesters.
India Biodiesel. The decrease in cost of goods sold during the three months ended March 31, 2025, compared to March 31, 2024, was attributable to a pause in production of biodiesel during the three months ended March 31, 2025, compared to 27.5 thousand metric tons of biodiesel sold during the three months ended March 31, 2024.
Gross profit (loss)
| 2025 |
2024 |
Inc/(dec) |
% change |
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| California Ethanol |
$ | (4,938 | ) | $ | (5,658 | ) | $ | 720 | (12.7 | )% | ||||||
| California Dairy Renewable Natural Gas |
305 | 2,210 | (1,905 | ) | (86.2 | )% | ||||||||||
| India Biodiesel |
(447 | ) | 2,836 | (3,283 | ) | (115.8 | )% | |||||||||
| Total |
$ | (5,080 | ) | $ | (612 | ) | $ | (4,468 | ) | 730.1 | % | |||||
California Ethanol. The decrease in gross loss during the period ended March 31, 2025, was attributable primarily to an increase in the average ethanol sales price.
California Dairy Renewable Natural Gas. The decrease in gross profit for the three months ended March 31, 2025, compared to the same period in 2024 is due to the decrease in sales and increase in costs of goods sold, primarily depreciation, for the increased number of operating digesters.
India Biodiesel. The decrease in gross profit in the first quarter 2025 compared to the first quarter 2024 reflects the paused sales to government OMCs in the first quarter of 2025.
Operating (income)/expense and non-operating (income)/expense
| 2025 |
2024 |
Inc/(dec) |
% change |
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| Selling, general and administrative |
10,475 | 8,850 | 1,625 | 18.4 | % | |||||||||||
| Other expense (income): |
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| Interest expense |
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| Interest rate expense |
$ | 11,018 | $ | 9,092 | $ | 1,926 | 21.2 | % | ||||||||
| Debt related fees and amortization expense |
2,675 | 1,421 | 1,254 | 88.2 | % | |||||||||||
| Accretion and other expenses of Series A preferred units |
2,279 | 3,311 | (1,032 | ) | (31.2 | )% | ||||||||||
| Other (income) expense |
(215 | ) | 67 | (282 | ) | (420.9 | )% | |||||||||
SG&A expenses consist primarily of salaries and related expenses for employees, marketing expenses related to sales of ethanol and WDG in California Ethanol and biodiesel and other products in India Biodiesel, as well as professional fees, insurance, other corporate expenses, and related facility expenses. SG&A expenses as a percentage of revenue were 24% in the three months ended March 31, 2025, compared to 12% in the three months ended March 31, 2024. The increase in SG&A percentage was due to decreased revenues during the three months ended March 31, 2025. The increase in total SG&A expenses in the three months ended March 31, 2025, was primarily due to increases in taxes, insurance, rent, utilities, and professional fees and the insurance and professional fee increases were associated with tax credit sales.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
Cash and Cash Equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents were $0.5 million at March 31, 2025, with $0.3 million held in our North American entities and $0.2 million in our India entity. Our current ratio was 0.16 at March 31, 2025 compared to 0.31 at December 31, 2024. We expect that our future available cash resources will be generated from operations, sales of equity, sales of tax credits, and new debt. Incurrence of new debt and the associated use of proceeds from future debt financings are subject to approval by our senior lender.
Liquidity
Cash and cash equivalents, current assets, current liabilities, and debt at the end of each period were as follows (in thousands):
| As of |
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| March 31, 2025 |
December 31, 2024 |
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| Cash and cash equivalents |
$ | 499 | $ | 898 | ||||
| Current assets (including cash, cash equivalents, and deposits) |
28,493 | 44,696 | ||||||
| Current and long-term liabilities (excluding all debt) |
186,922 | 185,169 | ||||||
| Current & long-term debt |
336,291 | 338,061 | ||||||
Our principal sources of liquidity have been cash provided by the sale of equity, operations, and borrowings under various debt arrangements.
We operate in a volatile market in which we have limited control over major components of input costs and product revenues. We are making investments in future facilities and facility upgrades that improve overall margins while lessening the impact of volatile markets. As such, we expect cash provided by operating activities to fluctuate in future periods primarily because of changes in the prices for corn, ethanol, WDG, DCO, CDS, biodiesel, waste fats and oils, glycerin, non-refined palm oil, natural gas, LCFS credits, and D3 RINs. To the extent that we experience periods in which the spread between ethanol prices and corn and energy costs narrow or the value of environmental attributes or tax credits is reduced, we require additional working capital to fund operations.
As a result of collateralization of substantially all of the Company assets with our senior secured lender, we have been reliant in the past on our senior secured lender to provide a portion of our funding and have been required to remit a significant portion of the cash received from investment tax credit sales to our senior lender. In order to meet obligations during the next twelve months, we will need to receive the continued cooperation of our senior lender to provide extensions of our debt maturities. We plan to pursue the following strategies to improve the course of the business.
For the Keyes Plant, we plan to operate the plant and continue to improve its financial performance by adopting new technologies or process changes that increase energy efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance revenue, as well as execute on awarded grants that improve energy and operational efficiencies resulting in lower cost, lower carbon intensity, and overall margin improvement. The planned improvements include the MVR system that is expected to begin operation in the first half of 2026. The MVR system is expected to reduce energy costs, reduce exposure to fluctuations in natural gas pricing, reduce the carbon intensity of ethanol produced by the plant, reduce the Keyes Plant's direct emissions of greenhouse gases, increase the value of LCFS and tax credits, and substantially improve the cash flows of the Keyes Plant.
For our dairy RNG production, we plan to continue to operate our existing digesters, build new dairy digesters, and extend our pipeline. Funding for construction has been based on government guaranteed debt financing and grant programs, which experienced delays in 2024 but we expect those sources to become available in the first half of 2025. We are seeking additional sources of project funding as well as equipment financing to allow us to accelerate construction of new digesters. Starting January 1, 2025, our RNG production qualifies for federal tax credits under Internal Revenue Code Section 45Z, and we anticipate monetizing these credits by selling them to third parties, which will provide an additional source of cash in addition to the sales of RNG, D3 RINs, and LCFS credits. We also expect LCFS revenue to increase when CARB approves our carbon intensity pathways, allowing us to generate approximately 80% more LCFS credits, and when CARB finalizes its adoption of new LCFS rules that are expected to increase the value of LCFS credits. We are also constructing our own dispensing station so we can sell RNG directly to users and reduce our costs.
For the Kakinada Plant, we plan to continue to enter contracts with the OMCs as our primary customers for biodiesel. We recently completed upgrades to increase our plant production capacity and specifically to increase the capacity to produce biodiesel from lower cost feedstocks and expand feedstock flexibility. The Kakinada Plant has had positive gross income during the last two years and we expect this to continue. We also rely on our working capital arrangements with feedstock suppliers to fund the acquisitions of feedstock and on a bank line of credit to provide lower cost financing secured by our accounts receivable.
In addition to the above we plan to continue to locate funding for operations and for existing and new business opportunities through a combination of working with our senior lender, obtaining new debt, selling equity through our at-the-market sales, selling the current EB-5 Phase II offering, and by vendor financing arrangements.
As of December 31, 2024, the outstanding balance of principal, interest and fees, net of discounts, on all Third Eye Capital Notes equaled $217.4 million. The maturity dates for the Third Eye Capital financing arrangements are as follows:
● Due April 30, 2025: $0.7 million
● Due on demand: $42.9 million
● May 30, 2025: $2 million
● March 1, 2026: $26.7 million
● April 1, 2026: $145.7 million
Our senior lender has provided a series of accommodating amendments to our debt facilities as described in further detail in Note 5. Debt of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in this Form 10-Q. However, future amendments or accommodations will continue to be at the discretion of the lender. In the event our senior lender does not extend our debt, we would likely not have sufficient cash to pay the debt when due unless we are able to obtain alternative financing.
Change in Debt, Working Capital and Cash Flows
The following table describes the changes in current and long-term debt (in thousands) during the three months ended March 31, 2025:
| Increases to debt: |
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| Accrued interest |
$ | 10,695 | ||||||
| Maturity date extension fee and other fees added to senior debt |
2,420 | |||||||
| Sub debt extension fees |
340 | |||||||
| Secured loans and Working capital loan draw |
326 | |||||||
| TEC short term promissory note |
3,800 | |||||||
| Total increases to debt |
$ | 17,581 | ||||||
| Decreases to debt: |
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| Principal, fees, and interest payments to senior lender |
$ | (13,177 | ) | |||||
| Principal and interest payments and reductions to EB-5 promissory note |
(23 | ) | ||||||
| Payment and reclassification of EB-5 broker note |
(2,595 | ) | ||||||
| Change in debt issuance costs, net of amortization |
(562 | ) | ||||||
| Term Loan Payments |
(2 | ) | ||||||
| Construction Term Loan Payments |
(1,237 | ) | ||||||
| Secured loans and Working capital loans payments |
(1,640 | ) | ||||||
| Jessup purchase notes payments |
(82 | ) | ||||||
| Reclass to accounts payable for payment |
(33 | ) | ||||||
| Total decreases to debt |
$ | (19,351 | ) | |||||
| Change in total debt |
$ | (1,770 | ) |
Working capital changes reflect (i) a $2.5 million decrease in inventories primarily due to selling feedstock in India during the pause in OMC shipments; (ii) a $12.3 million decrease in tax credit sale receivable due to receipt of the credit sale proceeds; (iii) a decrease in accounts receivable of $0.8 million in the India Biodiesel segment; and (iv) a $0.3 million decrease in other current assets in the India Biodiesel segment.
Cash provided by operating activities was $0.2 million, derived from a net loss of $24.5 million, non-cash changes of $9.6 million, and changes in operating assets and liabilities of $15.1 million. The non-cash changes primarily consisted of: (i) $2.3 million in stock-based compensation expense, (ii) $2.4 million in depreciation expenses, (iii) $2.7 million in amortization of debt issuance costs and other intangible assets, and (iv) $2.3 million in preferred unit accretion and other expenses of Series A Preferred Units. Cash increases related to changes in operating assets and liabilities consisted primarily of (i) a decrease in accounts receivable of $0.8 million, (ii) decrease in inventory of $2.5 primarily due to the India biodiesel segment selling feedstock inventory, (iii) $12.3 million receipt from tax credit sales, and (iv) $0.5 million reduction in other assets. This was offset by (i) a $0.7 million decrease in accounts payable, (ii) $0.2 million decrease in accrued interest expense and fees due to payments towards interest, and (iii) $0.1 million decrease in other liabilities.
Cash used in investing activities was $1.8 million, of which $1.3 million was used for capital projects associated with production of RNG and $0.4 million for capital projects at the Kakinada Plant.
Cash provided by financing activities was $1.3 million, consisting primarily of (i) $3.8 million proceeds from borrowings, and (ii) $5.1 million from sales of common stock, offset by (i) $5.2 million in repayments of borrowings, (ii) $2.2 million in payments on Series A Preferred financing, and (iii) $0.3 million in debt renewal and waiver fee payments.
In October 2020, we commenced an at-the-market stock sales program, which allows us to sell and issue shares of our common stock into the publicly traded markets. During the three months ended March 31, 2025, we sold 2.4 million shares of common stock under our at-the-market offering for net proceeds of $5.1 million net of commissions, which is included in the cash provided by financing activities noted above.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
Our discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations are based on our consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The preparation of these financial statements requires us to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported net sales and expenses for each period. We believe that of our most significant accounting policies and estimates, defined as those policies and estimates that we believe are the most important to the portrayal of our financial condition and results of operations and that require management’s most difficult, subjective or complex judgments, often as a result of the need to make estimates about the effects of matters that are inherently uncertain are: liquidity; debt covenant forecast; and recoverability of long-lived assets. These significant accounting principles are more fully described in “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Critical Accounting Policies” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024.
Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements
None reported beyond those disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024.
Off Balance Sheet Arrangements
None.
Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk.
Not applicable.
Item 4. Controls and Procedures.
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures.
Management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), carried out an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act). Based on this evaluation, our CEO and CFO concluded that, although remediation plans were initiated to address the material weaknesses over financial reporting as identified in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, IT general controls along with certain internal controls over financial reporting were not effective to provide reasonable assurance that the information required to be disclosed by us in reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in Securities and Exchange Commission rules and forms, and is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our CEO and CFO, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting.
As discussed in greater detail under Item 9A, Controls and Procedures, in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, we are executing our remediation plans to address the material weaknesses in our internal controls related to information technology general controls and information technology systems as well as documentation.
None.
Not applicable.
Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds.
During the first quarter of 2024, we issued warrants to two subordinated lenders in connection with extensions of their debt. The warrants provided the right for the lenders to purchase 113 thousand shares of Aemetis, Inc. common stock for a period of two years at an exercise price of $0.01 per share. We then issued 113 thousand shares of common stock to the lenders in connection with their exercise of the warrants. The issuance of the warrants and the issuance of the common stock upon exercise of the warrants were exempt from registration under Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, as issuances of securities not involving any public offering.
During the first quarter of 2024, we issued a stock option pursuant to the 2019 Stock Plan to a consultant that is exercisable for six thousand shares of Aemetis, Inc. common stock at an exercise price of $2.73 per share, which was the market price of our common stock on the day of issuance. The stock option has a term of 10 years, and one-twelfth of the shares vest every three months over a three-year period from the grant date. The issuance of this stock option and the future issuance of shares upon exercise of the option are exempt from registration under Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, as issuances of securities not involving any public offering.
Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities.
No unresolved defaults on senior securities occurred during the three months ended March 31, 2025.
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures.
None.
Current Report
On May 7, 2025, Aemetis Biogas LLC ("ABGL") entered into an agreement entitled Ninth Waiver and Amendment to Series A Preferred Unit Purchase Agreement ("PUPA Ninth Amendment") with an effective date of April 30, 2025, that provides, among other provisions, the requirement for ABGL to redeem all outstanding Series A Preferred Units by August 31, 2025, for an aggregate redemption price of $116.8 million or to enter into a credit agreement in the form attached to the PUPA Ninth Amendment. The PUPA Ninth Amendment is attached as Exhibit 10.1 to this Form 10-Q and is described in the notes to the Financial Statements in Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-Q under Note 11 Aemetis Biogas LLC - Series A Preferred Financing and Note 15 - Subsequent Events. This description is a summary only and is qualified by the text of the attached Exhibit 10.1.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
| Aemetis, Inc. |
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| Date: May 8, 2025 | By: |
/s/ Eric A. McAfee |
| Eric A. McAfee Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer) |
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| Date: May 8, 2025 | By: |
/s/ Todd A. Waltz |
| Todd A. Waltz Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer) |
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