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The energy stored in a capacitor is almost entirely in the electric field produced between the plates. It takes energy from a battery or some other power source to move electrons to one of the plates and away from the other. This makes one plate positively charged and the other negatively charged. Electric field is produced in proportion to the charge per unit area on a plate, and this electric field is said to originate on positive charges and terminate on negative charges.

Energy stored in electric fields is proportional to the square of the electric field strength and the volume of the field.

The energy is transferred from the power source to the electric field through the rearrangement of electrical charges.

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