Pacific Ethanol to Participate in the 31st Annual ROTH Conference

SACRAMENTO, Calif., March 12, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pacific Ethanol, Inc. (NASDAQ: PEIX), a leading producer and marketer of low-carbon renewable fuels and high-quality alcohol products in the United States, announced it will participate in the 31^st Annual ROTH Conference on Monday, March 18^th. The event will take place at the Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Nigel in Orange County, CA.

President and CEO Neil Koehler is scheduled to participate in the panel “Biofuels: Untangling the Regulatory Knots” at 2:30 p.m. PT on Monday, March 18^th. The panel will be available for replay on the company’s website at www.pacificethanol.com by end of day on March 18^th for 90 days.

Mr. Koehler will host one-on-one meetings throughout the day. Interested investors should contact their ROTH representative, or Kirsten Chapman of LHA Investor Relations at pacificethanol@lhai.com.

About Pacific Ethanol, Inc.
Pacific Ethanol, Inc. (PEIX) is a leading producer and marketer of low-carbon renewable fuels and high-quality alcohol products in the United States. Pacific Ethanol owns and operates nine production facilities, four in the Western states of California, Oregon and Idaho, and five in the Midwestern states of Illinois and Nebraska. The plants have a combined production capacity of 605 million gallons per year, produce over three million tons per year of ethanol co-products – on a dry matter basis – such as wet and dry distillers grains, wet and dry corn gluten feed, condensed distillers solubles, corn gluten meal, corn germ, corn oil, distillers yeast and CO2. Pacific Ethanol markets and distributes fuel-grade ethanol, high-quality alcohol products and co-products domestically and internationally. Pacific Ethanol’s subsidiary, Kinergy Marketing LLC, markets all ethanol and alcohol products for Pacific Ethanol’s plants as well as for third parties, approaching one billion gallons of ethanol marketed annually based on historical volumes. Pacific Ethanol’s subsidiary, Pacific Ag. Products LLC, markets wet and dry distillers grains. For more information please visit www.pacificethanol.com.

Released March 12, 2019