Energy management firm Hara received $25 million of funding today, writes TechCrunch.

Big backers include GE‘s Energy Technology Ventures, Nativas Capital, Kleiner Perkins, JAFCO and Nth Power. Kleitner partner Ray Lane has taken the chairman position on the board seat, TechCrunch says.

Big energy names in Energy Technology Ventures also include electric utility NRG Energy and oil and gas giant ConocoPhilips.

“Before companies can do anything about reducing their impact on the environment, they need to measure the damage they are doing. Energy management startup Hara helps them track their efforts to reduce their carbon footprint,” the technology site reported.

“Hara last raised $14 million two years ago, and another $6 million in 2008 from Kleiner. The new round brings the total capital in the company to $45 million,” TechCrunch says.

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Photo: John Doerr (3rd R), of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, speaks outside of the West Wing alongside Jeffrey Immelt (4th L), Chairman and CEO of General Electric, Paul Volcker (L), chairman of the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, and other members of the board, after the board’s first quarterly meeting with US President Barack Obama at the White House in Washington, DC, May 20, 2009.