Power consumption?

[LazyLoneLion]

Does inserter consume power if it's connected but stays still?
Does assembling machine consume power if it's not working, like when it has no input materials, for example?

[daniel34]

Yes, most electric buildings have an idle drain of about 3% of their energy consumption. You can see it on the sidebar to the right when hovering over a building. Example: Hovering over an assembling machine 2 shows Energy consumption: 150 kW, Drain: 5.0 kW.

Vanilla inserters always have a drain of 400 W when idle.
Buildings running on fuel don't consume any fuel when idle.

[LazyLoneLion]

Thank you for clearing that out.