Transaction in Own Shares

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
03 September 2007



                       Scottish and Southern Energy plc



Scottish and Southern Energy plc announces that Merrill Lynch International
has purchased on 3 September 2007, on the Company's behalf, 400,000 of its
Ordinary Shares at an average price of £14.1467786 per share for cancellation.



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