Corporate Update

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
10 September 2007


10 September 2007

                                Corporate update

Scottish and Southern Energy plc ('SSE') has signed four agreements with GD
Power Development Co Ltd (a subsidiary of China Guodian Corporation, one of
China's major energy companies) to support the development of four new wind
farms in north east China.  SSE Energy Supply Ltd will purchase around two
million Carbon Emissions Reduction Certificates (CERs) over a period of five
years from the start of 2008.

The signing ceremony took place today 10th September 2007 in Beijing, China, and
was attended by SSE's Chief Executive Ian Marchant, and followed the
announcement in June 2007 that SSE had finalised the first of the four
agreements.

Under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) established under Article 12 of the
Kyoto Protocol, countries - and therefore companies - can meet their carbon
emission reduction targets by purchasing CERS from CDM-approved carbon reduction
projects in the developing world. This is the first time that SSE has directly
acquired primary CERs from a project.

Each of the four wind farms is expected to have an installed capacity of around
50MW and will displace carbon emissions from coal-fired power stations in the
region, leading to around two million tonnes of carbon dioxide being avoided.
The construction of the first of the wind farms, GD Xingcheng Haibin is already
under way and the last of them is expected to be commissioned during 2008.

In May 2007, SSE announced that it has set itself a target to reduce by 20% over
10 years to 2016 the amount of carbon dioxide per kilowatt hour of electricity
produced at power stations in which it has an ownership or contractual interest.
It said its target would include CERs from specific generation projects under
the CDM, but would exclude those which are not related to a specific generation
project.


Contacts:

Sally Fairbairn                Investor Relations Manager       01738 456 491
Sharron Miller- mckenzie       Press Office Manager



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