Note 13 - Management's Plan	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2023
Notes to Financial Statements
Substantial Doubt about Going Concern [Text Block]	13. Management's Plan 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 market conditions resulting in prolonged idling of the Keyes Plant, negative operating results, and collateralization of substantially all of the company assets, the Company has been reliant on its senior secured lender to provide additional funding and has been required to remit substantially all excess cash from operations to the senior secured lender. In order to meet its obligations during the next twelve months, the Company will need to either refinance the Company’s debt or receive the continued cooperation of its senior lender. This dependence on the senior lender raises substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. The Company plans to pursue the following strategies to improve the course of the business. For the Keyes Plant, we restarted the plant during the second quarter after completing an extended maintenance cycle and accelerating the implementation of several important ethanol plant energy efficiency upgrades. We plan to operate the plant and continue to improve its financial performance by completing the existing upgrades and adopting new technologies or process changes that allow for energy efficiency, cost reduction or revenue enhancements, as well as, executing upon awarded grants that improve energy and operational efficiencies resulting in lower cost, lower carbon demands and overall margin improvement. For Aemetis Biogas we plan to operate the biogas digesters to capture and monetize biogas as well as continue to build new dairy digesters and extend the existing pipeline in order to capture the carbon credits available in California. Funding for continued construction is based upon obtaining government guaranteed loans and executing on existing and new state grant programs. For the Kakinada Plant, we plan to continue to develop sales channels for domestic products as the costs of feedstock normalize against the price of diesel, as recently announced governmental incentives take effect to promote the blending of biodiesel, and as feedstocks such as refined animal tallow are used domestically and exported. Additionally, we are in the process of obtaining approval to export refined animal tallow and biodiesel produced using animal tallow into international markets as the use of refined animal tallow received approval from the Pollution Control Board of India for production of biodiesel. The repatriation of funds from India to the parent company in the U.S. is reliant on favorable governmental approvals. For the Riverbank project, we plan to continue project development and raise the funds necessary to construct and operate the Carbon Zero plant in Riverbank, California to produce renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel for transportation use as well as generate federal and state carbon credits available for the production and sale of low carbon fuels. For all facilities in the United States, we plan to utilize the provision of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 by qualifying for tax credits in the form of an Investment Tax Credits, Production Tax Credits, and other credits, and to monetize the credits using the provisions of this congressional act. In addition to the above we plan to continue to locate funding for existing and new business opportunities through a combination of working with our senior lender, restructuring existing loan agreements, selling bonds in the taxable and tax-exempt markets, selling equity through the ATM and otherwise, selling the current EB-5 Phase II offering, or by vendor financing arrangements.

Note 13 - Management's Plan

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Substantial Doubt about Going Concern [Text Block]

13. Management's Plan

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 market conditions resulting in prolonged idling of the Keyes Plant, negative operating results, and collateralization of substantially all of the company assets, the Company has been reliant on its senior secured lender to provide additional funding and has been required to remit substantially all excess cash from operations to the senior secured lender. In order to meet its obligations during the next twelve months, the Company will need to either refinance the Company’s debt or receive the continued cooperation of its senior lender. This dependence on the senior lender raises substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. The Company plans to pursue the following strategies to improve the course of the business.

For the Keyes Plant, we restarted the plant during the second quarter after completing an extended maintenance cycle and accelerating the implementation of several important ethanol plant energy efficiency upgrades. We plan to operate the plant and continue to improve its financial performance by completing the existing upgrades and adopting new technologies or process changes that allow for energy efficiency, cost reduction or revenue enhancements, as well as, executing upon awarded grants that improve energy and operational efficiencies resulting in lower cost, lower carbon demands and overall margin improvement.

For Aemetis Biogas we plan to operate the biogas digesters to capture and monetize biogas as well as continue to build new dairy digesters and extend the existing pipeline in order to capture the carbon credits available in California. Funding for continued construction is based upon obtaining government guaranteed loans and executing on existing and new state grant programs.

For the Kakinada Plant, we plan to continue to develop sales channels for domestic products as the costs of feedstock normalize against the price of diesel, as recently announced governmental incentives take effect to promote the blending of biodiesel, and as feedstocks such as refined animal tallow are used domestically and exported. Additionally, we are in the process of obtaining approval to export refined animal tallow and biodiesel produced using animal tallow into international markets as the use of refined animal tallow received approval from the Pollution Control Board of India for production of biodiesel. The repatriation of funds from India to the parent company in the U.S. is reliant on favorable governmental approvals.

For the Riverbank project, we plan to continue project development and raise the funds necessary to construct and operate the Carbon Zero plant in Riverbank, California to produce renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel for transportation use as well as generate federal and state carbon credits available for the production and sale of low carbon fuels.

For all facilities in the United States, we plan to utilize the provision of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 by qualifying for tax credits in the form of an Investment Tax Credits, Production Tax Credits, and other credits, and to monetize the credits using the provisions of this congressional act.

In addition to the above we plan to continue to locate funding for existing and new business opportunities through a combination of working with our senior lender, restructuring existing loan agreements, selling bonds in the taxable and tax-exempt markets, selling equity through the ATM and otherwise, selling the current EB-5 Phase II offering, or by vendor financing arrangements.