Transaction in Own Shares

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
11 September 2007


                         Scottish and Southern Energy plc



Scottish and Southern Energy plc announces that Credit Suisse Securities
(Europe) Limited has purchased on 11 September 2007, on the Company's behalf,
300,000 of its Ordinary Shares at an average price of £13.9771 per share for
cancellation.





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