Bright Capital, the corporate venturing unit of Russia-based industrial conglomerate Ru-Com Group, and US-listed transport company Waste Management are the two corporations in Genomatica's $45m round.

Jim Barry, chief executive of NTR, will be chief investment officer on the $110bn BlackRock Alternative Investors platform's new renewable power investment team.

1366 said it had raised $28.4m in total by adding GE Energy Financial Services, a division of US-listed industrial conglomerate General Electric, and venture capital (VC) firm VantagePoint Venture Partners to its previous consortium.

SmartSynch, an electricity equipment company, raises $25.7m from 26 investors in an interim close as part of a planned $33.4m round.

Wesley Chan, a partner at Google Ventures is listed as a director on Transphorm's latest regulatory filing as the company raised $20m in its C round.

A series A round is expected by mid-2011, Novacem said, after UK-based construction company Laing O'Rourke joins a $3m seed round.

Ajoy Mallik, global head, of venture capital private equity, incubation and co-innovation (Coin), told newswire Bloomberg: "These [wind, water, biomass and fuel cells technologies] are the growth engines of the future."

According to a regulatory filing, the $89.6m for BrightSource has so far come from 28 investors after advice from Advanced Equities.

T-Venture joins Yellow&Blue Investment Management, the corporate venturing unit of local power group Eon's Nuon subsidiary, state-backed bank KfW, company and government-backed early-stage investor High-Tech Gruunderfonds, and Siegmund Beteiligungsgesellschaft in Cuculus.

SolarCity, a US-based provider of solar energy services, has acquired peer GroSolar's residential services division from a consortium including Allco Financial Group, a financial services business in liquidation.