Sorry @energyaddict22 for not responding to you, but I thought I had answered already -oops but it wasn´t so- ! Sorry again for that.

So far regarding your reply in first yes maybe the Germans will see some greater movements, but they lost a lot of their leading manpower in special mostly the heads and their teams who moved to Asian or American companies and so the had to focus for a longer timeframe since 2013 to bring up again such genius humans who help them and their think tanks to step ahead. There was a big lack of founding and educating in this high technology fields where the Germans a few years before where leading in the world, but this is history and if you won’t keep in mind that others are also hungry and get good human resources you have to start the race again if you will come back to your former position.
I agree with you that the end of the age of fossil fuels is not near in the next 10 maybe 20 years, but with more capital spend in R&D and more focusing on scaling in technologies which has a positive impact on the energy disaster.
Still I don’t believe that they can held their position in the green energy sector, I guess we had to look also to some of the southern European nations like Spain and Italy.
Spain has huge terrains where its suitable to built large plants for solar as well as wind, and they are willing to handle this, they´ve done it before from 2004 to 2009 and then made their mistake to suit the investors with breaking their own law -this will not happen again-.

Italy specially the Island of Sicily is producing more energy from the renewables than they need for their island, so the export to the mainland, and there is also a lot of space where more plants can be erected (also in both fields solar and wind).
Next there must be mentioned for sure the Asian countries like 1st China and then Japan and the next big player India they all ride for more than 10 years this wave, investing incredible amounts of money in education, technology and infrastructure. Building one after one new bigger and better production facilities for solar and wind and even for batteries and electric cars.

In 2006 we negotiate solar facilities for India with an output from 20MW, today they are building solar power plants with more than 1GW with mostly own produced modules, and the Chinese Manufacturing capacity has grown so fast that the prices dump for about three years and their quality had reached a level which is not less than that from the Germans.
And in the Industry for battery cars the Chinese and Co. (including India) are since more than 5 years the leading manufactures but nobody from the industry nations had taken notice from for long time. And if there will not be some guys like Mr. TESLA Elon Musk then these guys will dominate this sector also. They have the biggest fleet of Battery cars and bikes worldwide, they deliver complete power stations, complete wind- and solar- parks, huge battery systems and also fuel cells.

As you know, and you see from my comments there is a hard way in front of all of us and if all work continuously on this we will solve this issue for sure in the next 2 decades.
And if not we all than maybe the Asians alone will run this and get the benefits from, we will see. Oh yes the americans also are on a good way, what about the russians i only know about som solar activities at the border of the black sea.

wiht sunny greetings from Andalusia
Don Thomas