Transaction in Own Shares

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
13 July 2007




                      Scottish and Southern Energy plc


Scottish and Southern Energy plc announces that Merrill Lynch International
has purchased on 13 July 2007, on the Company's behalf, 350,000 of its Ordinary
Shares at a price of £14.619469 per share for cancellation.




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