Does using the electronic shutter option cause the battery to drain faster?

[cwp342020]

I get quite a bit of photography news and tips daily on my email.  I received one yesterday concerning how one could make their batteries last longer in the camera while using it.  Many of the tips were obvious, but one caught my eye.  The writer said that if you set your camera to use the electronic shutter, then the camera would use up the battery quicker than if you just used the manual shutter.  To me, that seems incorrect.  To my way of thinking, using the manual shutter would use the battery quicker, as there are moving parts that have to be moved, which would use more energy.  I've used both in my XT-1. but I can't definitively say one way or the other on which may cause the battery to drain faster.  Does anyone have any ideas on this?  I realize that both settings have their pluses and minuses, but I'm curious now about the electronic shutter and battery usage.  Thanks. 

[JaapD]

What you say is correct. A mechanical shutter draws more power than an electronic shutter. An electronic shutter is nothing more than a control voltage (reset-gate) and lets the built up charge drain to the sensor substrate. This draws almost no power, possibly only a bit during high frame rates (because of the capacitive load of the switching) but even then it's significantly less that with a mechanical shutter.

Edited April 1, 2016 by JaapD