As stated. Today I found that the teleporter doesn't consume any energy at all by default. If I want to, I can turn it on and have it consume energy. But it teleports units either way.
For whatever reason, by default it was not consuming energy. I thought it was weird when people said it had a cost, because I checked the UI, and my energy spending is a flat zero when I have units walking through the teleporter. That's clearly not what is supposed to be happening. But by default my teleporters are free and not affected by economy