Here we're going to say that an electrolytic cell uses non spontaneous reactions and as a result of this it's consuming electricity. Now all non spontaneous reactions have a negative standard cell potential value. So if we're talking about an electrolytic cell, remember it's non spontaneous.
Here we can relate this idea to other variables. Gibbs free energy, entropy, our equilibrium constant, and our reaction quotient Q besides our standard cell potential. So here to be non spontaneous, the change in our standard Gibbs free energy would have to be greater than 0. For changing our standard entropy of the universe, or total, it would be less than 0.
K would have to be less than one. It would also be less than Q and again we said negative standard cell potential. So here to be negative it had been less than 0. So these are the relationships that we can talk about when it comes to an electrolytic cell, and spontaneity when it comes to these different types of variables.