Note 9 - Aemetis Biogas LLC - Series A Preferred Financing	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2024
Notes to Financial Statements
Variable Interest Entity Disclosure [Text Block]	9. Aemetis Biogas LLC – Series A Preferred Financing On December 20, 2018, Aemetis Biogas LLC ("ABGL") entered into a Series A Preferred Unit Purchase Agreement for the sale of Series A Preferred Units to Protair-X Americas, Inc., with Third Eye Capital acting as an agent. ABGL is authorized to issue 11,000,000 common units and 6,000,000 convertible, redeemable, secured, preferred membership units (the “Series A Preferred Units”). ABGL issued 6,000,000 common units to Aemetis, Inc. at a value of $5.00 per common unit for a total of $30.0 million in funding. 5,000,000 common units of ABGL are held in reserve as potential conversion units issuable to the Preferred Unit holder upon certain triggering events. From inception of the agreement through 2022, ABGL issued 6,000,000 Series A Preferred Units in exchange for $30.0 million in funding, reduced by a redemption of 20,000 Series A Preferred Units for $0.3 million. The original Preferred Unit Purchase Agreement included requirements for preference payments and mandatory redemption, in addition to several operating covenants. On February 8, 2024, ABGL entered into an agreement entitled Fifth Waiver and Amendment to Series A Preferred Unit Purchase Agreement (“PUPA Fifth Amendment") providing: (i) a waiver to ABGL for not redeeming all Series A Preferred Units by December 31, 2023 and (ii) the right for ABGL to redeem all of the outstanding Series A Preferred Units by April 30, 2024, for an aggregate redemption price of $111.0 million. The PUPA Fifth Amendment further provides that if ABGL does not redeem the Series A Preferred Units by the redemption date, ABGL will enter into a credit agreement with Protair-X and Third Eye Capital effective as of May 1, 2024 and maturing April 30, 2025, in substantially the form attached to the PUPA Fifth Amendment. The credit agreement bears an interest rate equal to the greater of (i) the prime rate plus 10.0% and (ii) 16.0%. In accordance with the provisions of ASC 470-60 Troubled Debt Restructuring, we applied troubled debt restructuring accounting to the PUPA Fifth Amendment, resulting in no gain or loss from the application of this accounting to the entry of the PUPA Fifth Amendment. As of filing of this Form 10Q, the Company has not executed the credit agreement and has been in the process of obtaining the extension to redeem the Series A Preferred Units. In addition, consistent with ASC 470-60, the Company accretes the amount of principal and interest due using the effective interest method from the starting liability value to the full amount that would be due as of April 30, 2025. Based on the terms of the PUPA Fifth Amendment, the deferred PUPA redemption balance is classified as long term liability as of March 31, 2024. The Company recorded Series A Preferred Unit liabilities as long-term liabilities of $116.9 million and $113.2 million as of March 31, 2024, and December 31, 2023, respectively.

Note 9 - Aemetis Biogas LLC - Series A Preferred Financing

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2024

Variable Interest Entity Disclosure [Text Block]

9. Aemetis Biogas LLC – Series A Preferred Financing

On December 20, 2018, Aemetis Biogas LLC ("ABGL") entered into a Series A Preferred Unit Purchase Agreement for the sale of Series A Preferred Units to Protair-X Americas, Inc., with Third Eye Capital acting as an agent. ABGL is authorized to issue 11,000,000 common units and 6,000,000 convertible, redeemable, secured, preferred membership units (the “Series A Preferred Units”). ABGL issued 6,000,000 common units to Aemetis, Inc. at a value of $5.00 per common unit for a total of $30.0 million in funding. 5,000,000 common units of ABGL are held in reserve as potential conversion units issuable to the Preferred Unit holder upon certain triggering events. From inception of the agreement through 2022, ABGL issued 6,000,000 Series A Preferred Units in exchange for $30.0 million in funding, reduced by a redemption of 20,000 Series A Preferred Units for $0.3 million. The original Preferred Unit Purchase Agreement included requirements for preference payments and mandatory redemption, in addition to several operating covenants.

On February 8, 2024, ABGL entered into an agreement entitled Fifth Waiver and Amendment to Series A Preferred Unit Purchase Agreement (“PUPA Fifth Amendment") providing: (i) a waiver to ABGL for not redeeming all Series A Preferred Units by December 31, 2023 and (ii) the right for ABGL to redeem all of the outstanding Series A Preferred Units by April 30, 2024, for an aggregate redemption price of $111.0 million. The PUPA Fifth Amendment further provides that if ABGL does not redeem the Series A Preferred Units by the redemption date, ABGL will enter into a credit agreement with Protair-X and Third Eye Capital effective as of May 1, 2024 and maturing April 30, 2025, in substantially the form attached to the PUPA Fifth Amendment. The credit agreement bears an interest rate equal to the greater of (i) the prime rate plus 10.0% and (ii) 16.0%. In accordance with the provisions of ASC 470-60 Troubled Debt Restructuring, we applied troubled debt restructuring accounting to the PUPA Fifth Amendment, resulting in no gain or loss from the application of this accounting to the entry of the PUPA Fifth Amendment. As of filing of this Form 10Q, the Company has not executed the credit agreement and has been in the process of obtaining the extension to redeem the Series A Preferred Units. In addition, consistent with ASC 470-60, the Company accretes the amount of principal and interest due using the effective interest method from the starting liability value to the full amount that would be due as of April 30, 2025. Based on the terms of the PUPA Fifth Amendment, the deferred PUPA redemption balance is classified as long term liability as of March 31, 2024.

The Company recorded Series A Preferred Unit liabilities as long-term liabilities of $116.9 million and $113.2 million as of March 31, 2024, and December 31, 2023, respectively.