Directorate Change

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
24 February 2005


               ELECTRICITY DIRECTORS RETIRE WITH 90 YEARS SERVICE

Scottish and Southern Energy plc ('SSE') announced on 29 July 2004 that Henry
Casley, non-Executive Director, and David Sigsworth, Generation Director,
intended to retire from the Board before the 2005 Annual General Meeting.

David Sigsworth will retire from the Board on 31 March 2005. He joined the
electricity industry in 1962 and has been on the Board of SSE since it was
formed in 1998. Henry Casley will retire on 17 May 2005. He joined the industry
in 1961 and has also been on the Board since SSE was formed.

As stated in the 29 July announcement, SSE's Board will in future consist of
four Executive Directors and five independent non-Executive Directors. Colin
Hood, Chief Operating Officer, will assume Board-level responsibility for the
operation of SSE's generation portfolio and will become Lead Director for the
Environment.

Sir Robert Smith, Chairman of SSE, said: 'With almost 90 years' service between
them, Henry Casley and David Sigsworth have been outstanding servants of the
UK's electricity industry. They were instrumental in the successful
privatisations of Southern Electric and Scottish Hydro-Electric respectively and
in the evolution of what were highly successful companies in their own right.

Henry and David have played highly significant parts in the successful merger of
Southern Electric and Scottish Hydro-Electric to create SSE and in the
subsequent development of the business. They have each brought to bear their
wealth of experience and expertise and their contributions have been invaluable,
and they are stepping down from the Board with our best wishes for the future.'

Enquires to:

Alan Young, Director of Corporate Communications0870 900 0410
Denis Kerby, Investor and Media Relations Manager0870 900 0410

NOTE TO EDITOR:-

When Henry Casley and David Sigsworth joined the electricity industry in the
early 1960s, work was still going on to standardise voltages across the country
after nationalisation in 1947. Another priority in the early 1960s was to
complete the rural electrification programmes which were still connecting farms
and other rural settlements to the electricity network.

Many electricity bills, especially for industrial and commercial customers, were
still typed on old fashioned typewriters and carbon paper in the early 1960s.
The industry's first use of computers for billing and computer centre was built
around that time at Limewood Approach in Leeds, near where David Sigsworth
started work for Yorkshire Electricity Board.

Cornishman Henry Casley's first job in the electricity industry was with the
South Western Electricity Board (SWEB), which distributed electricity from
Bristol down to Land's End. His final job in the industry has been with SSE,
which distributes electricity up to John O'Groats.



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