Purchase of Own Securities

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
07 March 2003

7 March 2003



                         Scottish & Southern Energy plc

Scottish & Southern Energy plc announces that it purchased from Merrill Lynch
International for cancellation 200,000 of its ordinary shares on 7 March 2003 at
a price of 604.8 pence per share.

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