Transaction in Own Shares

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
30 August 2007


Scottish and Southern Energy plc



Scottish and Southern Energy plc announces that Merrill Lynch International has
purchased on 30 August 2007, on the Company's behalf, 400,000 of its Ordinary
Shares at an average price of £13.96000575 per share for cancellation.








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