The LEAG Group is Germany's second-largest energy producer, primarily operating in the

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(Lausitz) region of eastern Germany. The conglomerate was founded in 2016, when the Swedish company

Vattenfall Vattenfall is a Swedish multinational corporation, multinational electrical power industry, power company owned by the List of government enterprises of Sweden, Swedish state. Beyond Sweden, the company generates power in Denmark, Finland, Germa ...

sold their German

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division to the Czech investors EPH and PPF. It consists of several legally separate sister companies and their subsidiaries: *Lausitz Energie Bergbau AG *Lausitz Energie Kraftwerke AG *Lausitz Energie Verwaltungs GmbH

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* {{authority control German companies established in 2016 Natural gas companies of Germany