Transaction in Own Shares

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
16 January 2004

                         Scottish & Southern Energy plc



Scottish & Southern Energy plc announces that it purchased from Merrill Lynch
International for cancellation 150,000 of its ordinary shares on 16 January 2004
at a price of 638.75 pence per share.



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