Directorate Change

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
26 September 2003


                             REIREMENT OF DIRECTOR


Ian Grant CBE, Deputy Chairman, will retire from the Board of Scottish and
Southern Energy plc (SSE) on 31 October 2003. He joined the Board of Scottish
Hydro-Electric in May 1992, and became Deputy Chairman of SSE in November 2000.

Dr Bruce Farmer CBE, Chairman, said:

'I would like to pay the highest possible tribute to Ian Grant for his
distinguished contribution to, first, Scottish Hydro-Electric and then the
merged SSE. Ian has been a very influential figure within the business over many
years and his contribution will be greatly missed.'


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