Transaction in Own Shares

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
20 July 2007


Scottish and Southern Energy plc



Scottish and Southern Energy plc announces that Merrill Lynch International

has purchased on 20 July 2007, on the Company's behalf, 350,000 of its Ordinary
Shares at a price of £14.6914238 per share for cancellation.








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