Deeya, EnerTech Environmental, StreamControl, and investor news

• Flow-battery (large-scale energy storage) developer Deeya Energy has raised a $15mm Series B round, led by NEA and including existing investors BlueRun, DFJ and DFJ Element.  Some fo the capital will be used to fund development of a factory in India.  VentureBeat and GTM also had write-ups.

• EnerTech Environmental, which is developing plants to capture energy from wastewater sludge, has raised a $42mm second round, led by Citigroup and Masdar, and including Nimes Capital and CNM.

• StreamControl, which offers systems to reduce water loss in municipal water systems, has raised a $250k round of financing from Israel’s Shari Arison’s investment fund.

• Cleantech investors in the news:  Dutch cleantech venture capital firm Icos Capital has brought on Dinant Veehof as a General Partner…  Brad Barton, formerly of the DOE’s EERE program, has joined NGP Energy Technology Partners...  And Yellowstone has launched a second, $50mm fund.

Other news and notes:  Here’s a pretty good overview on carbon capture and sequestration (CCS)...  Measurement and verification—critically important in the carbon offset business...    Nathanael is thinking BIG this year...  An update on biofuels...  An update on green electronics...  Pretty interesting tally (note: pdf) of the biggest R&D spenders in the corporate world (lots of them increasingly focused on cleantech)...  Finally, don’t try this at home with your salt shaker.