Regardless of how many efficiency upgrades you have (or whether they match the number of overclockers you have), the pad will -always- incur a base "running cost." You never get anything for free.
Try it, empty piece quantum armor and pad fully charged but disconnected from the power grid. Stand on it, and wait for the quantum armor to charge up. Afterwards you are left with ~9062000, but the piece of quantum armor got charged by 1 million eu.