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AEMETIS, INC

For the period ended Dec 31, 2024. Filed Mar 14, 2025.

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FY2024 · Filed Mar 14, 2025

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Stockholders and the Board of Directors of Aemetis, Inc.

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Aemetis, Inc. and its subsidiaries (the Company) as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the related consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss, stockholders' deficit and cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended December 31, 2024, and the related notes to the consolidated financial statements (collectively, the financial statements). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended December 31, 2024, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the Company's internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024, based on criteria established inInternal Control—* Integrated Framework* issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission in 2013. Our report dated March 14, 2025, expressed an opinion that the Company had not maintained effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024, based on criteria established inInternal Control—* Integrated Framework* issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission in 2013.

Substantial Doubt about the Company’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern

The accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 18 to the financial statements, the Company has suffered recurring losses from operations and has a net capital deficiency. This raises substantial doubt about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern. Management's plans in regard to these matters also are described in Note 18. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

Critical Audit Matters

The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective or complex judgments. The communication of critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing separate opinions on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which they relate.

Liquidity and Management’s Plan

As disclosed in Note 18 of the consolidated financial statements, the Company has been reliant on their senior secured lender for liquidity and has been required to remit substantially all excess cash from operations to the senior secured lender. Management believes, due to the need to secure additional financing, there is substantial doubt about their ability to continue as a going concern through the next twelve months from the date of issuance of these consolidated financial statements. While the Company believes they will be able to implement plans to improve liquidity, there are inherent risks and uncertainties regarding their ability to execute their plans.

We determined the adequacy of the Company’s financing sources and the Company's overall cash flow projections to be a critical audit matter because management’s plan includes certain significant assumptions related to the Company's cash flow needs. Auditing management’s assumptions related to the Company's cash flow needs involved a high degree of auditor judgment and increased audit efforts.

Our audit procedures related to the Company’s financing sources and overall cash flow projections included the following, among others:

●We evaluated the reasonableness of forecasted cash needs, for at least one year from the financial statement issuance date, by comparing to historical operating results as well as external forecasted market data for both ethanol and corn.
●We evaluated the reasonableness of management’s estimated reduction in current liabilities from the Company’s cash needs for a period of greater than a year from the financial statement issuance date by evaluating subordination agreements that are in place and the ability for the company to defer interest payments on various debt agreements.
●We evaluated management’s forecasted cash needs, for at least one year from the financial statement issuance date, in the context of other audit evidence obtained, including, but not limited to, board of director minutes and investor presentation to determine whether the other audit evidence supported or contradicted the forecast.
●We tested the subsequent event activity related to additional cash available or needs to additional funding of working capital.
●We tested the Company’s ability to maintain compliance with covenants, for at least one year from the financial statement issuance date, under the existing loan agreements.

/s/ RSM US LLP

We have served as the Company's auditor since 2012.

Des Moines, Iowa

March 14, 2025

To the Stockholders and the Board of Directors of Aemetis, Inc.

Opinion on the Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

We have audited Aemetis, Inc. and its subsidiaries' (the Company) internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024, based on criteria established inInternal Control—* Integrated Framework* issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission in 2013. In our opinion, because of the effect of the material weaknesses described below on the achievement of the objectives of the control criteria, the Company has not maintained effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024, based on criteria established inInternal Control—* Integrated Framework* issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission in 2013.

We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the consolidated balance sheets as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the related consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss, stockholders’ deficit and cash flows for the years then ended, and the related notes to the consolidated financial statements of the Company and our report dated March 14, 2025 expressed an unqualified opinion.

A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of the company's annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis. The following material weaknesses have been identified and included in management's assessment.

●There were ineffective information technology general controls (ITGCs). As a result of the pervasive impact of these controls, automated and manual business process controls that are dependent on ITGCs were also ineffective.
●There were ineffective controls at the Company’s India Biodiesel segment due to the lack of sufficient evidence available to verify the performance of controls. As a result of the deficiency, controls were not effective related to the account balances and transactions of the Company’s India Biodiesel segment.

These material weaknesses were considered in determining the nature, timing and extent of audit tests applied in our audit of the 2024 financial statements, and this report does not affect our report dated March 14, 2025 on those financial statements.

Basis for Opinion

The Company’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting in the accompanying Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, and testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk. Our audit also included performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

Definition and Limitations of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

A company's internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company's internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of the company's assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

/s/RSM US LLP

Des Moines, Iowa

March 14, 2025

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