Total Voting Rights

SSE plc - Voting Rights and Capital

In accordance with the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rule 5.6.1, SSE plc ("the Company") would like to notify the market of the following:

As at 31 March 2018, the issued share capital of the Company was 1,023,008,915 ordinary shares. This figure includes 7,858,966 ordinary shares which are held in treasury. The voting rights on treasury shares are automatically suspended.

Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company was 1,015,149,949 as at 31 March 2018 and this figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

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