Purchase of Own Securities

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
24 July 2002

24 July 2002

                         Scottish & Southern Energy PLC

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC announces that it purchased from Merrill Lynch
International for cancellation, 345,000 of its Ordinary shares on Wednesday 24
July 2002 at a price of 589.137 pence per share.

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