---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001654954-23-012671"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AMTX"
cik: "0000738214"
company_name: "AEMETIS, INC"
filed_at: "2023-10-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-10T03:41:10.312875+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Aemetis Biogas closes $53M sale of IRA investment tax credits; expects $800M more

## Summary
- Sold $53M of Section 48 investment tax credits to an unrelated corporate purchaser on Sept 29, 2023.
- Tax credits generated from six dairy digesters, biogas pipeline, and RNG production facility built by Aemetis Biogas.
- Aemetis expects over $800M of additional IRA investment and production tax credits over next four years from renewable fuel projects.
- First IRA tax credit transaction; cash payment to be received within five business days of the agreement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001654954-23-012671
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AMTX
- cik: 0000738214
- company_name: AEMETIS, INC
- filed_at: 2023-10-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/738214/000165495423012671/0001654954-23-012671-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/738214/000165495423012671/amtx_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001654954-23-012671.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  AEMETIS, INC entered into Agreement with a company with no relation to Aemetis or ABL valued at a single fixed payment (effective 2023-09-29).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: asset purchase
  - Counterparty: a company with no relation to Aemetis or ABL
  - Value: a single fixed payment
  - Effective: 2023-09-29
  source text: Aemetis, Inc. (“Aemetis”) and its subsidiary Aemetis Biogas LLC (“ABL”) entered into a Federal Renewable Energy Investment Tax Credit Purchase and Sale Agreement, effective as of September 29, 2023 (the “Agreement”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/738214/000165495423012671/0001654954-23-012671-index.htm

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