Transaction in Own Shares

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
06 July 2007


                         Scottish and Southern Energy plc



Scottish and Southern Energy plc announces that Credit Suisse Securities
(Europe) Limited has purchased on 6 July 2007, on the Company's behalf, 196,000
of its Ordinary Shares at a price of £14.6947 per share for cancellation.






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