Achany Wind Farm

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
17 December 2007


                        SCOTTISH AND SOUTHERN ENERGY PLC

                      CONSENT SECURED FOR ACHANY WIND FARM

Scottish and Southern Energy plc ('SSE') has been granted planning permission to
develop a 40MW (megawatt) wind farm at Achany in Sutherland.

The decision follows a Public Inquiry into the development, which was concluded
in August 2007 - the original planning application was made in October 2005. The
wind farm will have 23 turbines and construction work is expected to begin next
year, with the wind farm scheduled to be commissioned in 2010. Its development
will require the investment of around £55m.


When Achany is commissioned, SSE will have 275MW of installed wind farm
capacity. This includes the Drumderg and Toddleburn wind farms, which are
expected to be commissioned in 2008 and 2009 respectively. It will be SSE's
seventh wind farm.

In addition to Achany, SSE is currently seeking to secure consent for seven
other wind farms, with a total capacity of over 650MW, which are at various
stages in the formal planning process.


Ian Marchant, Chief Executive of SSE, said: 'I am pleased that the Achany wind
farm has finally received consent, and we will work to ensure that the
construction work at the site is carried out efficiently and professionally. We
will seek to work in partnership with the local community throughout the
construction period.

'In the last 15 months, we have had three successes in the wind farm planning
process. Nevertheless, it remains much too time-consuming and unpredictable to
be an effective means of realising Scotland's and the UK's renewable energy
requirements.'


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