Transaction in Own Shares

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
29 August 2007



Scottish and Southern Energy plc


Scottish and Southern Energy plc announces that Merrill Lynch International has
purchased on 29 August 2007, on the Company's behalf, 400,000 of its Ordinary
Shares at an average price of £13.86588265 per share for cancellation.



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