UK's Second Largest

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC 21 December 2007 SCOTTISH AND SOUTHERN ENERGY PLC UK'S SECOND LARGEST SUPPLIER OF ENERGY Scottish and Southern Energy plc ('SSE') has overtaken EON UK to become the UK's second largest supplier of electricity and gas, according to the Datamonitor Market Share Monitor. Its analysis of all electricity and gas customer accounts shows that SSE had just over 8.1 million customers as at 31 October 2007, over 130,000 more than EON UK. In the time since then, SSE's electricity and gas customer numbers have grown further, to 8.2 million. In addition, SSE also has 200,000 telecoms and gas boiler maintenance customers, taking its total number of customers to 8.4 million. This means SSE has gained 3.9 million customers since the start of 2002, when it was the UK's fifth largest energy supplier. SSE supplies energy as Scottish Hydro Electric, Southern Electric, SWALEC and Atlantic. In October 2007, uSwitch.com reported that it was ranked top for customer satisfaction for the fourth time in a row in its independent Customer Satisfaction Report. In November 2007, in the results of the JD Power 2007 UK Electricity and Gas Customer Satisfaction Study, SSE was ranked the top performing supplier in both electricity and gas. Ian Marchant, Chief Executive of SSE, said: 'I am delighted that the hard work by teams of people throughout SSE has resulted in us passing the milestone of becoming the UK's second largest energy supplier. 'The sustained growth which we have achieved in the last few years has been the result of providing best-in-sector service and consistently adopting a policy of responsible pricing against a backdrop of volatile wholesale energy markets. 'We want to increase customer numbers further, and will seek to do so through more improvements in customer service, a continued policy of responsible pricing and good product development.' This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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