Transaction in Own Shares

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
14 January 2004

                         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 14 January 2004
at a price of 644.71 pence per share.

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