diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 699fa62f3b4a..b5671627d870 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 - ESP32-C3 ledlink functionality regression from v13.1.0.2
 - Berry parser error in specific cases (#20059)
 - ``changeUIntScale`` for linearity when expanding range (#20089)
+- ESP32 remove restart energy logging if no energy monitoring is selected
 
 ### Removed
 
diff --git a/RELEASENOTES.md b/RELEASENOTES.md
index 35db20fb804e..cf3bc718a5d5 100644
--- a/RELEASENOTES.md
+++ b/RELEASENOTES.md
@@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ The latter links can be used for OTA upgrades too like ``OtaUrl https://ota.tasm
 - Zero-Cross Dimmer for ESP32 with Core3 [#19929](https://github.com/arendst/Tasmota/issues/19929)
 - ``changeUIntScale`` for linearity when expanding range [#20089](https://github.com/arendst/Tasmota/issues/20089)
 - ESP32 I2C allow bus2 support when bus1 is not enabled
+- ESP32 remove restart energy logging if no energy monitoring is selected
 - ESP32 IR receive with Arduino Core 3 [#19904](https://github.com/arendst/Tasmota/issues/19904)
 - ESP32-C3 ledlink functionality regression from v13.1.0.2
 - Berry parser error in specific cases [#20059](https://github.com/arendst/Tasmota/issues/20059)
diff --git a/tasmota/tasmota_xdrv_driver/xdrv_03_esp32_energy.ino b/tasmota/tasmota_xdrv_driver/xdrv_03_esp32_energy.ino
index 21d2e47e1a56..66ed9b8b380d 100644
--- a/tasmota/tasmota_xdrv_driver/xdrv_03_esp32_energy.ino
+++ b/tasmota/tasmota_xdrv_driver/xdrv_03_esp32_energy.ino
@@ -1379,9 +1379,6 @@ void EnergyDrvInit(void) {
   Energy = (tEnergy*)calloc(sizeof(tEnergy), 1);    // Need calloc to reset registers to 0/false
   if (!Energy) { return; }
 
-  EnergySettingsLoad(0);
-  EnergyRtcSettingsLoad();
-
   Energy->value = nullptr;
 //  Energy->voltage_common = false;
 //  Energy->frequency_common = false;
@@ -1399,9 +1396,13 @@ void EnergyDrvInit(void) {
   Energy->power_on = true;
 
   TasmotaGlobal.energy_driver = ENERGY_NONE;
-  XnrgCall(FUNC_PRE_INIT);             // Find first energy driver
+  XnrgCall(FUNC_PRE_INIT);              // Find first energy driver
   if (TasmotaGlobal.energy_driver) {
+    EnergySettingsLoad(0);
+    EnergyRtcSettingsLoad();
     AddLog(LOG_LEVEL_INFO, PSTR("NRG: Init driver %d"), TasmotaGlobal.energy_driver);
+  } else {
+    free(Energy);                       // No energy driver found so release memory
   }
 }