Saying you use wind energy you pay extra for is a pet peeve of mine :)
You're not really using wind energy. The electrons don't know who is pushing them.
You just increase the share of non-wind that others get, but as long as there are fewer wind subscribers than there is wind energy it doesn't change thing. Premium goes entirely to your energy provider, their profits and marketing department.
Happy to be proved wrong in your case if you have a link to your plan.
This is an oversimplification. I assume you're both talking about REGOs. Electrons are fungible so you're sort of right in that you aren't using the exact electrons that come from a wind turbine. But you're wrong that the extra money just goes straight to profits and has zero effect on green energy generation.
Imagine two scenarios:
1. Everyone believes your comment so nobody pays extra for green energy. Therefore the market value of RIGOs is 0. This means green energy generators get paid exactly the same market price per kWh as brown (?) generators.
2. Some people (not necessarily everyone) pay for 100% green energy. This increases the market value of RIGOs so now green suppliers get paid a bit more. Green energy is now worth more than brown energy, which changes the supply/demand curve so you get more green energy overall.
The RIGO market is a very elegant market solution to selling the "greenness" of green energy. The fact that it isn't a dumb 1:1 connection that people naively expect doesn't mean it is a scam.
You're not really using wind energy. The electrons don't know who is pushing them.
You just increase the share of non-wind that others get, but as long as there are fewer wind subscribers than there is wind energy it doesn't change thing. Premium goes entirely to your energy provider, their profits and marketing department.
Happy to be proved wrong in your case if you have a link to your plan.