Transaction in Own Shares

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
10 March 2008






                        Scottish and Southern Energy plc


Scottish and Southern Energy plc announces that Merrill Lynch International
has purchased on 10 March 2008, on the Company's behalf, 250,000 of its Ordinary
Shares at an average price of £14.06424284 per share for cancellation.





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