Gevo, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEVO) ("Gevo", the "Company", "we", "us" or "our") today announced financial results for the second quarter of 2022 and recent corporate highlights.

Recent Corporate Highlights

• On July 18, 2022, Gevo signed a financeable fuel sales agreement with American Airlines, Inc. to supply 100 million gallons per year of SAF for five years from Gevo’s future commercial operations. The table below summarizes the supply agreements executed since April 1, 2022:

• Gevo now has more than 350 million gallons per year (“MGPY”) of financeable SAF and hydrocarbon fuel supply agreements, which based on current market projections and operating assumptions, represent approximately $2.1 billion in expected revenue per year, inclusive of the value of environmental benefits. These types of contracts are expected to assist Gevo in obtaining project debt financing.
• On June 5th, 2022, Gevo executed a registered direct offering of 33.3 million shares to certain institutional investors. That offering closed on June 8th, 2022, providing net proceeds of $139.0 million. As part of the offering, Gevo issued 33.3 million Series 2022-A Warrants with an exercise price of $4.37 per share.
• The Company's Net-Zero 1 project is on schedule and the Company continues to work towards completion of the various milestones for 2022, including, among others, executing certain commercial development, build, own and operate agreements, and selecting an EPC contractor for the project.
• On July 25, 2022, the Company completed the purchase of approximately 245 acres near Lake Preston, South Dakota for its Net-Zero 1 production facility.
• Gevo's renewable natural gas ("RNG") project in Northwest Iowa is now generating biogas from all three dairies and the RNG produced is expected to ramp toward nameplate capacity of 355,000 MMBtu throughout the second half of 2022.

2022 Second Quarter Financial Highlights

• Ended the quarter with cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash and marketable securities of $546.8 million compared to $475.8 million as of the end of Q4 2021
• Revenue of $0.1 million for the quarter compared to $0.3 million in Q2 2021
• Loss from operations of $(16.1) million for the quarter compared to $(19.1) million in Q2 2021
• Non-GAAP cash EBITDA loss¹ of $(11.0) million for the quarter compared to $(17.2) million in Q2 2021
• GAAP net loss per share and non-GAAP adjusted net loss per share² of $(0.06) for the quarter compared to $(0.09) in Q2 2021

Management Comment

Commenting on the second quarter of 2022 and recent corporate events, Dr. Patrick R. Gruber, Gevo’s Chief Executive Officer, said, “Given our continued success in securing SAF supply agreements as well as the additional interest that we are witnessing in the marketplace, there should not be any question about the potential size of the market for renewable fuels. The opportunities in front of us over the next decade and beyond are large and rapidly growing. Our goal is to build SAF production capacity at a rate that will establish Gevo and its partners as a market leader and powerhouse in the renewable fuels sector. It all starts with NZ1, the engineering and design is going well. Based on what we see today we expect to stay on schedule for the 2025 start-up.” Dr. Gruber also remarked that, “Gevo's RNG project continues to ramp to nameplate capacity of 355,000 MMBtu. All three dairies are now producing biogas which is then upgraded and injected into the sales pipeline. That RNG is sold into the California market by our marketing partner, BP. We continue to collect the performance data for our application to the California Air Resource Board to receive LCFS credits and the Renewable Fuel Standard Program for RINs."

Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results

During the three months ended June 30, 2022, we sold 9 thousand gallons of SAF, isooctane, and isooctene from our Luverne Facility. Revenue decreased $0.3 million during the three months ended June 30, 2022, compared to the three months ended June 30, 2021, due to the Luverne Facility being operated for the Company's development projects on a as needed basis.

Cost of goods increased $1.0 million during the three months ended June 30, 2022, compared to the three months ended June 30, 2021, primarily due to an increase in direct labor and utility expenses as the Luverne Facility was not fully staffed during the second quarter of 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The majority of our costs are related to the production of SAF, isooctane, and isooctene as we continue to develop and tailor our Luverne Facility demonstration operations to support our focus on advancing technology, testing and optimizing alternative feedstocks, yeast strains, and unit operations as well as partnership development for integrated GHG reductions. Cost of goods sold also includes a $2.1 million net realizable gain adjustment made to our finished goods and work in process inventory. There were no inventory net realizable value adjustments recorded during the three months ended June 30, 2021, as the Luverne Facility was temporarily shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Research and development expense increased $0.6 million during the three months ended June 30, 2022, compared to the three months ended June 30, 2021, primarily due to an increase of laboratory expenses and additional stock-based compensation expense.

Selling, general and administrative expense increased $4.4 million during the three months ended June 30, 2022, compared to the three months ended June 30, 2021, primarily due to increases in personnel costs related to strategic new hiring, stock-based compensation, and professional fees.

Preliminary stage project costs are related to our Verity and future Net-Zero Projects and consist primarily of employee expenses and consulting costs. Preliminary stage project costs decreased $5.2 million during the three months ended June 30, 2022, compared to the three months ended June 30, 2021, primarily because we began capitalizing our RNG and NZ1 project costs in 2021.

Other operations expense increased $0.6 million during the three months ended June 30, 2022, compared to the three months ended June 30, 2021, primarily related to unallocated engineering and consulting services.

Depreciation and amortization expense increased $0.3 million during the three months ended June 30, 2022, compared to the three months ended June 30, 2021, primarily due to the amortization of our patents.

We incurred no gain (loss) from the change in the fair value of the derivative warrant liability in the three months ended June 30, 2022. The last of the liability warrants expired in February 2022.

There were no significant changes in interest expense during the three months ended June 30, 2022, compared to the three months ended June 30, 2021.

Interest and dividend income increased $0.1 million during the three months ended June 30, 2022, compared to the three months ended June 30, 2021, primarily due to the interest earned on our investments partially offset by the amortization of the bond premiums.

Other income (expense) increased $2.7 million during the three months ended June 30, 2022, compared to the three months ended June 30, 2021, primarily due to our receipt of $2.9 million from the US Department of Agriculture's Biofuel Producer Program to support biofuel producers who faced unexpected losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Biofuel Producer Program grants are not tax-exempt.

Non-GAAP cash EBITDA loss³ in the three months ended June 30, 2022, was $(11.0) million, compared with a $(17.2) million non-GAAP cash EBITDA loss in the same period in 2021.

During the six months ended June 30, 2022, net cash used for operating activities was $17.1 million compared to $19.5 million for the six months ended June 30, 2021. The $2.4 million decrease was primarily due to increased costs associated with our production of isobutanol and hydrocarbon products for market development, process technology and related process engineering work. In addition, we had increases in personnel expenses to support the growth in business activity, partnership development and Verity development expenses.

Webcast and Conference Call Information

Hosting today’s conference call at 4:30 p.m. EDT (2:30 p.m. MDT) will be Dr. Patrick R. Gruber, Chief Executive Officer, L. Lynn Smull, Chief Financial Officer, Tim Cesarek, Chief Commercial Officer, and John Richardson, Director of Investor Relations. They will review Gevo’s financial results and provide an update on recent corporate highlights.

To participate in the live call, please register through the following event weblink: https://register.vevent.com/register/BI82c9f363e71c46baa4a8d5e9764fcdbd. After registering, participants will be provided with a dial-in number and pin.

To listen to the conference call (audio only), please register through the following event weblink: https://edge.media-server.com/mmc/p/65vvqgmx.

A webcast replay will be available two hours after the conference call ends on August 8, 2022. The archived webcast will be available in the Investor Relations section of Gevo's website at www.gevo.com.

About Gevo

Gevo’s mission is to transform renewable energy and carbon into energy-dense liquid hydrocarbons. These liquid hydrocarbons can be used for drop-in transportation fuels such as gasoline, jet fuel, and diesel fuel, that when burned have potential to yield net-zero greenhouse gas emissions when measured across the full lifecycle of the products. Gevo uses low-carbon renewable resource-based carbohydrates as raw materials, and is in an advanced state of developing renewable electricity and renewable natural gas for use in production processes, resulting in low-carbon fuels with substantially reduced carbon intensity (the level of greenhouse gas emissions compared to standard petroleum fossil-based fuels across their lifecycle). Gevo’s products perform as well or better than traditional fossil-based fuels in infrastructure and engines, but with substantially reduced greenhouse gas emissions. In addition to addressing the problems of fuels, Gevo’s technology also enables certain plastics, such as polyester, to be made with more sustainable ingredients. Gevo’s ability to penetrate the growing low-carbon fuels market depends on the price of oil and the value of abating carbon emissions that would otherwise increase greenhouse gas emissions. Gevo believes that it possesses the technology and know-how to convert various carbohydrate feedstocks through a fermentation process into alcohols and then transform the alcohols into renewable fuels and materials, through a combination of its own technology, know-how, engineering, and licensing of technology and engineering from Axens North America, Inc., which yields the potential to generate project and corporate returns that justify the build-out of a multi-billion-dollar business.

Gevo believes that Argonne National Laboratory GREET model is the best available standard of scientific based measurement for life cycle inventory or LCI.

Learn more at Gevo’s website: www.gevo.com

Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements in this press release may constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements relate to a variety of matters, including, without limitation, whether our fuel sales agreements are financeable, the timing of our Net-Zero 1 project, our financial condition, our results of operation and liquidity, our business development activities, our Net-Zero Projects, our RNG Project, our fuel sales agreements, our plans to develop our business, our ability to successfully develop, construct and finance our operations and growth projects, our ability to achieve cash flow from our planned projects, the ability of our products to contribute to lower greenhouse gas emissions, particulate and sulfur pollution, and other statements that are not purely statements of historical fact These forward-looking statements are made based on the current beliefs, expectations and assumptions of the management of Gevo and are subject to significant risks and uncertainty. Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements. All such forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and Gevo undertakes no obligation to update or revise these statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Although Gevo believes that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, these statements involve many risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from what may be expressed or implied in these forward-looking statements. For a further discussion of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from those expressed in these forward-looking statements, as well as risks relating to the business of Gevo in general, see the risk disclosures in the Annual Report on Form 10-K of Gevo for the year ended December 31, 2021 and in subsequent reports on Forms 10-Q and 8-K and other filings made with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission by Gevo.

Non-GAAP Financial Information

This press release contains financial measures that do not comply with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), including non-GAAP cash EBITDA loss, non-GAAP adjusted net loss and non-GAAP adjusted net loss per share. Non-GAAP cash EBITDA loss excludes depreciation and amortization and non-cash stock-based compensation from GAAP loss from operations. Non-GAAP adjusted net loss and adjusted net loss per share exclude non-cash gains and/or losses recognized in the quarter due to the changes in the fair value of certain of Gevo’s financial instruments, such as warrants, convertible debt and embedded derivatives, from GAAP net loss. Management believes these measures are useful to supplement its GAAP financial statements with this non-GAAP information because management uses such information internally for its operating, budgeting and financial planning purposes. These non-GAAP financial measures also facilitate management’s internal comparisons to Gevo’s historical performance as well as comparisons to the operating results of other companies. In addition, Gevo believes these non-GAAP financial measures are useful to investors because they allow for greater transparency into the indicators used by management as a basis for its financial and operational decision making. Non-GAAP information is not prepared under a comprehensive set of accounting rules and therefore, should only be read in conjunction with financial information reported under U.S. GAAP when understanding Gevo’s operating performance. A reconciliation between GAAP and non-GAAP financial information is provided in the financial statement tables below.

¹ Cash EBITDA loss is a non-GAAP measure calculated by adding back depreciation and amortization and non-cash stock-based compensation to GAAP loss from operations. A reconciliation of cash EBITDA loss to GAAP loss from operations is provided in the financial statement tables following this release.
² Adjusted net loss per share is a non-GAAP measure calculated by adding back non-cash gains and/or losses recognized in the quarter due to the changes in the fair value of certain of our financial instruments, such as warrants, convertible debt and embedded derivatives, to GAAP net loss per share. A reconciliation of adjusted net loss per share to GAAP net loss per share is provided in the financial statement tables following this release.
³ Cash EBITDA loss is a non-GAAP measure calculated by adding back depreciation and amortization and non-cash stock compensation to GAAP loss from operations. A reconciliation of cash EBITDA loss to GAAP loss from operations is provided in the financial statement tables following this release.

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