Transaction in Own Shares

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
14 August 2007


                      Scottish and Southern Energy plc


Scottish and Southern Energy plc announces that Credit Suisse Securities
(Europe) Limited has purchased on 14 August 2007, on the Company's behalf,
200,000 of its Ordinary Shares at a price of £14.4496 per share for
cancellation.






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