Transaction in Own Shares

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
15 August 2007


                       Scottish and Southern Energy plc


Scottish and Southern Energy plc announces that Credit Suisse Securities
(Europe) Limited has purchased on 15 August 2007, on the Company's behalf,
250,000 of its Ordinary Shares at a price of £14.4127 per share for
cancellation.




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