Of course it's a trick. If you're anywhere other than an island that has no transmission lines running to it and you pay for electrical service, you're connecte

Of course it's a trick. If you're anywhere other than an island that has no transmission lines running to it and you pay for electrical service, you're connected to the same grid everybody else is. Your power comes from the same place everybody else's does. You don't actually have a choice of where your "electrons" come from (they come from the wires, by the way, generating stations just make them move around). Your "preference" is nothing more than providing an extra subsidy to generating stations that make the electrons wiggle via renewable energy sources.