Transaction in Own Shares

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
12 March 2008


                         Scottish and Southern Energy plc


Scottish and Southern Energy plc announces that Merrill Lynch International
has purchased on 12 March 2008, on the Company's behalf, 200,000 of its Ordinary
Shares at an average price of £14.17454545 per share for cancellation.




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