Kind of, its who your main provider essentially pays for the electricity you "buy" from them. Its not like they physically route different cables to your house on a separate grid when you buy power from a different source. Under the retail choice energy market stuff its all really weird and theoretical. All the providers are doing really is buying and selling the electricity like stocks.

No matter who you chose you are still getting the same power as your neighbors.

The whole renewable energy choice thing is really just greenwashing they use to sell deregulation to people. In reality it has little to no actual effect on the power you receive. Unless of course everyone chose the renewable energy provider. But if everyone is collectively choosing the renewable energy you might as well have a town commission that does it for you as a full time job. And is able to negotiate better rates. 🤔 hmm I think I just invented public utilities.