diff --git a/cmd/exporter/exporter.go b/cmd/exporter/exporter.go
index 61636c9afa..ac5b50f02e 100644
--- a/cmd/exporter/exporter.go
+++ b/cmd/exporter/exporter.go
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ func newAppConfig() *AppConfig {
 	flag.StringVar(&_config.Kubeconfig, "kubeconfig", "", "absolute path to the kubeconfig file, if empty we use the in-cluster configuration")
 	flag.BoolVar(&_config.ApiserverEnabled, "apiserver", true, "if apiserver is disabled, we collect pod information from kubelet")
 	flag.StringVar(&_config.RedfishCredFilePath, "redfish-cred-file-path", "", "path to the redfish credential file")
-	flag.BoolVar(&_config.ExposeEstimatedIdlePower, "expose-estimated-idle-power", false, "estimated idle power is meaningful only if Kepler is running on bare-metal or when there is only one virtual machine on the node")
+	flag.BoolVar(&_config.ExposeEstimatedIdlePower, "expose-estimated-idle-power", false, "Whether to expose the estimated idle power as a metric")
 	flag.StringVar(&_config.MachineSpecFilePath, "machine-spec", "", "path to the machine spec file in json format")
 	flag.BoolVar(&_config.DisablePowerMeter, "disable-power-meter", false, "whether manually disable power meter read and forcefully apply the estimator for node powers")
 
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ func main() {
 	config.SetEnabledHardwareCounterMetrics(appConfig.ExposeHardwareCounterMetrics)
 	config.SetEnabledGPU(appConfig.EnableGPU)
 	config.SetEnabledMSR(appConfig.EnableMSR)
-	config.SetEnabledIdlePower(appConfig.ExposeEstimatedIdlePower || components.IsSystemCollectionSupported())
+	config.SetEnabledIdlePower(appConfig.ExposeEstimatedIdlePower)
 
 	config.SetKubeConfig(appConfig.Kubeconfig)
 	config.SetEnableAPIServer(appConfig.ApiserverEnabled)
diff --git a/pkg/collector/energy/node_energy_collector.go b/pkg/collector/energy/node_energy_collector.go
index e2b0e450a6..d30107ae41 100644
--- a/pkg/collector/energy/node_energy_collector.go
+++ b/pkg/collector/energy/node_energy_collector.go
@@ -104,7 +104,9 @@ func UpdateNodeEnergyMetrics(nodeStats *stats.NodeStats) {
 	// update platform power later to avoid race condition when using estimation power model
 	UpdatePlatformEnergy(nodeStats)
 	// after updating the total energy we calculate the idle, dynamic and other components energy
-	UpdateNodeIdleEnergy(nodeStats)
+	if config.IsIdlePowerEnabled() {
+		UpdateNodeIdleEnergy(nodeStats)
+	}
 	nodeStats.UpdateDynEnergy()
 	nodeStats.SetNodeOtherComponentsEnergy()
 }
diff --git a/pkg/collector/stats/stats.go b/pkg/collector/stats/stats.go
index 733fab92d8..58053164f2 100644
--- a/pkg/collector/stats/stats.go
+++ b/pkg/collector/stats/stats.go
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ func (s *Stats) CalcDynEnergy(absM, idleM, dynM, id string) {
 
 // calcDynEnergy calculates the dynamic energy.
 func calcDynEnergy(totalE, idleE uint64) uint64 {
-	if (totalE == 0) || (idleE == 0) || (totalE < idleE) {
+	if (totalE == 0) || (totalE < idleE) {
 		return 0
 	}
 	return totalE - idleE