Directors Shareholding(s)

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
4 September 2001


Schedule 11 - Notification of interests of Directors and Connected Persons

1   Name of company:
Scottish and Southern Energy

2   Name of director:
All executive directors

3   Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of     
holding of the director named in 2 above or holding of that person's spouse or
children under the age of 18 or in respect of a non- beneficial interest:
Director

4   Name of registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the number of 
shares held by each of them (if notified):
Share Ownership Trust

5   Please state whether notification relates to a person(s) connected with  
the director named in 2 above and identify the connected person(s):
See 4 above

6   Please state the nature of the transaction. For PEP transactions please  
indicate whether general/single co PEP and if discretionary/non discretionary:
Further to the maturity of the Scottish and Southern Energy's 1996 and 1998
sharesave schemes and the Southern Electric 1998 sharesave scheme, acquisition
of shares by the Trustees of the Employee Share Trust using proceeds received
from the participants in the maturing sharesave schemes.

7   Number of shares/amount of stock acquired:
921,874

8   Percentage of issued class:
0.1072

9   Number of shares/amount of stock disposed:
N/A

10  Percentage of issued class:
N/A

11  Class of security:
Ordinary 50p shares

12  Price per share:
£6.64

13  Date of transaction:
3 September 2001

14  Date company informed:
3 September 2001

15  Total holding following this notification:
1,777,349

16  Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification:
0.2066

If a director has been granted options by the company, please complete the
following fields:

17  Date of grant:
N/A

18  Period during which or date on which exercisable:
N/A

19  Total amount paid (if any) for grant of the option:
N/A

20  Description of shares or debentures involved: class, number:
N/A

21  Exercise price (if fixed at time of grant) or indication that price is to
be fixed at time of exercise:
N/A

22  Total number of shares or debentures over which options held following
this notification:
N/A

23  Contact name for queries:
Alex Cairncross

24  Contact telephone number:
01738 455154

25  Name of company official responsible for making notification:
Ailsa Stroud, Assistant Company Secretary


Additional Information: