No, you are charged by the wattage that you use. Watts are the product of amps times volts. Say you have a device that draws 5000 watts and you are using a voltage of 480 volts then the amperage will be A = W/E = 5000/480 = 10.4 amps. Now using that same wattage at 208 volts the amperage will be A = W/E = 5000/208 = 24 amps. As you can see the only thing that changes is the current (amps) on a consistent wattage with different voltages. One big advantage on using higher voltages over smaller voltages is, with the amps being lower, a smaller wire size can be used for the same wattage load. In the end though, you are still billed on the wattage used.
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