Purchase of Own Securities

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
04 February 2003

4 February 2003





                         Scottish & Southern Energy plc

Scottish & Southern Energy plc announces that it purchased from Merrill Lynch
International for cancellation 297,385 of its ordinary shares on 4 February 2003
at a price of 606.185 pence per share.

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