Transaction in Own Shares

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
27 March 2008


Scottish and Southern Energy plc

Scottish and Southern Energy plc announces that Merrill Lynch International
has purchased on 27 March 2008, on the Company's behalf, 200,000 of its Ordinary
Shares at an average price of £14.0804875per share for cancellation.



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