Purchase of Own Securities

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
30 January 2003

30 January 2003



                         Scottish & Southern Energy plc

Scottish & Southern Energy plc announces that it purchased from Merrill Lynch
International for cancellation 179,144 of its ordinary shares on 30 January 2003
at a price of 600.949 pence per share.

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