Transaction in Own Shares

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
21 September 2007


                        Scottish and Southern Energy plc




Scottish and Southern Energy plc announces that Credit Suisse Securities
(Europe) Limited has purchased on 21 September 2007, on the Company's behalf,
400,000 of its Ordinary Shares at an average price of £14.4797 per share for
cancellation.





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