What happens when we see electron movement without net electron movement? Charge balance and electron speed are such that if an electron moves and another electron replaces the moving electron in a very short time frame then there will have been no net displacement current.
Large numbers of electrons can become excited and move to a nearby ground plane or return connection. This means that large numbers of electrons in a dielectric will move counter to the charged electrons causing capacitance. The very statistics that make up the to and fro of electron movement in a capacitor are the electric field that stores energy in a Farad of capacitance.
Highly charged electrons move down a conductor. As they approach a dielectric they find a quick path to ground through the well know relationships displayed in the capacitance equation. Electrons statistically shoot down to the return conductor and are at once replaced by less energetic electrons in the dielectric. This statistical electron dance is said to store energy in the electric field. A vacuum of high energy electrons appears on the less energetic side of the capacitor as the electrons in the dielectric are sucked away to replace the high energy electrons moving quickly on the adjacent capacitor's plate.
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