Directorate Change

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
10 December 2004


                         APPOINTMENT OF DEPUTY CHAIRMAN

David Payne has been appointed Deputy Chairman and senior independent Director
of Scottish and Southern Energy plc with effect from 1 January 2005. He will
succeed Sir Robert Smith as Deputy Chairman. Sir Robert Smith's appointment as
Chairman of Scottish and Southern Energy, with effect from 1 January 2005, was
announced at the Company's AGM in July 2004. David Payne joined the Board of SSE
in June 1998.




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