---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001359687-25-000021"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001359687"
company_name: "SOUTH 8 ENERGY, LLC"
filed_at: "2025-02-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T01:19:22.305206+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# South 8 Energy (f/k/a Red Trail Energy) closes asset sale to Gevo; changes name

## Summary
- Asset sale to Gevo subsidiaries closed on Jan 31, 2025; company sold substantially all assets.
- Name changed from Red Trail Energy, LLC to South 8 Energy, LLC effective Feb 24, 2025.
- No deal consideration disclosed in this filing; refer to Asset Purchase Agreement filed Sep 16, 2024.
- Company's fiscal year end remains September 30.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001359687-25-000021
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001359687
- company_name: SOUTH 8 ENERGY, LLC
- filed_at: 2025-02-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1359687/000135968725000021/0001359687-25-000021-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1359687/000135968725000021/red-20250224.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001359687-25-000021.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  SOUTH 8 ENERGY, LLC: Company changed its name from Red Trail Energy, LLC to South 8 Energy, LLC via Articles of Amendment filed in North Dakota (effective 2025-02-24).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-02-24
  source text: the Company amended its Articles of Organization by filing Articles of Amendment with the North Dakota Secretary of State on February 10, 2025, to change the name of the Company from "Red Trail Energy, LLC" to "South 8 Energy, LLC". The North Dakota Secretary of State approved this filing on February 24, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1359687/000135968725000021/0001359687-25-000021-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.