Transaction in Own Shares

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
23 August 2007


Scottish and Southern Energy plc



Scottish and Southern Energy plc announces that Merrill Lynch International
has purchased on 23 August 2007, on the Company's behalf, 500,000 of its
Ordinary Shares at an average price of £13.91897003 per share for cancellation.








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