Friday November 2, 2007

Pacific Ethanol, Inc. to Announce FY 2007 Third Quarter Results

The Company will host a live conference call and webcast at 10:00 AM EST / 7:00 AM PST on Friday, November 9, 2007.  Neil Koehler, Chief Executive Officer, and John Miller, Chief Operating Officer and acting Chief Financial Officer, will host the call.

To listen to the conference call by phone, US callers may dial 800.561.2601.  International callers may dial 617.614.3518.  All callers should enter access code 63671086.

A live webcast can be accessed on Pacific Ethanol’s web site at www.pacificethanol.net.  A replay will be available beginning approximately two hours after conclusion of the call. Information regarding replay availability will be included in the earnings release. The webcast will be archived after conclusion of the call.

About Pacific Ethanol, Inc.

Pacific Ethanol is the largest West Coast-based marketer and producer of ethanol.  Pacific Ethanol has ethanol plants in Madera, California; Boardman, Oregon; and Burley, Idaho and has an additional plant under construction in Stockton, California.  Pacific Ethanol also owns a 42% interest in Front Range Energy, LLC which owns an ethanol plant in Windsor, Colorado. Central to Pacific Ethanol’s growth strategy is its destination business model, whereby each respective ethanol plant achieves lower process and transportation costs by servicing local markets for both fuel and feed.  Pacific Ethanol’s goal is to achieve 220 million gallons per year of ethanol production capacity in 2008 and to increase total production capacity to 420 million gallons per year in 2010.  In addition, Pacific Ethanol is working to identify and develop other renewable fuel technologies, such as cellulose-based ethanol production and bio-diesel.

Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995

With the exception of historical information, the matters discussed in this press release including, without limitation, Pacific Ethanol’s belief that it will complete construction of the ethanol plant in Stockton within the next 14 months, Pacific Ethanol’s belief that the area’s concentration of cattle is sufficient to consume the expected wet distillers grain output from the plant to be located in Stockton and that the plant’s location will provide affordable access to fuel markets in California, and that Pacific Ethanol will have in excess of 220 million gallons of annual production capacity by mid-2008, are forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. The actual future results of Pacific Ethanol could differ from those statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, the ability of Pacific Ethanol to conform to the funding and other requirements of its recently completing debt financing; the ability of Pacific Ethanol to successfully and timely complete construction of its ethanol plants in Boardman, Oregon, Burley, Idaho, Calipatria and Stockton, California, the ability of Pacific Ethanol to timely complete, in a cost effective manner, its ethanol plant build-out program and to successfully capitalize on its internal growth initiatives; the ability of Pacific Ethanol to operate its plants at their planned production capacities; the price of ethanol relative to the price of gasoline; and those factors contained in the “Risk Factors” section of Pacific Ethanol’s Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 12, 2007.

 
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