Founded in 2009 by Tom Buttgenbach and Martin Hermann,[1] it was acquired by KKR fifteen years later.
[2] In 2014, Kern County Board of Supervisors approved development of Redwood Solar Farm which received investment of $30 million by Macquarie Capital.
[3][4][5] In 2018, it had raised $200 million through a joint venture with J.P. Morgan Asset Management and Upper Bay Infrastructure Partners for its pipeline of utility-scale solar projects.
[12] In 2022, the same year that the University of California filed a lawsuit against the firm,[13] 8minute Solar Energy announced they had secured $400 million in financing from institutional investor EIG.
It has developed solar farms that includes Eagle Shadow Mountain Solar Farm which is a 420 MWp (300 MWAC) photovoltaic power station north of Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada.