- Says funding reaches almost 30 million pounds ($41.5 million)

- The funding has been awarded to 21 V2G projects to pay for research, design and development

- The schemes, including an EDF Energy project, will demonstrate how energy from electric vehicle batteries can be stored by the electricity system during peak hours, before being recharged off-peak back into vehicle batteries

(Reporting by Lefteris Karagiannopoulos; Editing by Dale Hudson)