Transaction in Own Shares

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
18 July 2007


Scottish and Southern Energy plc

Scottish and Southern Energy plc announces that Merrill Lynch International
has purchased on 18 July 2007, on the Company's behalf, 250,000 of its Ordinary
Shares at a price of £14.6125628 per share for cancellation.







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