Pipeline-interleaving is an implementation method yielding a reduced area. This paper discusses the power consumption for such implementations, compared to a direct implementation. An examplefilter has been implemented, both as a direct structure and a pipeline-interleaved structure, and the results show a 38% and 23% increase in power consumption for correlated and uncorrelated input data respectively using a pipeline-interleaved structure. Possible explanations of the results are discussed for the example filter.