This week in who's getting funded, and who needs more, Oakland company BrightSource Energy raised $115 million in third round funding to continue work on its solar-thermal utility plants. Investors in this new venture include BP Alternative Energy (see here for more about corporate investment), Google, Morgan Stanley, and Chevron Technology Ventures. This $115 mill check is in addition to the $160 million they've already raised. While one would think this amount of money would give them the power to strap a harness on the sun and do whatever they want with its power, not so. It's being used to build a facility in Isreal.

If you need furthur proof that green business is hot right now (and really, do we?), GreenFuel Technologies also nailed $13.9 million in funding last week from their existing investors. Founded by an MIT researcher, GreenFuel develops algae farm technologies that recycle CO2 emissions. While this new investment brings their total funding to $36 million to date, more than half of the new sum will be applied to corporate debt (Whoops).

Also bringing home the bacon this week, Wilson TurboPower, a high-efficieny heat exchanger manufacturer, secured a $500K investment. This is third round funding for the company, which has raised a total of $6.4 million since 2001.

A BrightSource solar device: