I’m only just a snot nosed Apprentice but I was laying in bed last night thinking about grounding and bonding. Previously in other courses of study not related to my current apprenticeship I learned that the grounding electrode/grounding electrode conductor is primarily installed for the purpose of electrostatic discharge and lightning. I know that the regular grounding system is a redundancy of the neutral to give the manufactured voltages A path back to the neutral point of its origin.

My big question is whether or not capacitive discharge once a system has been D energized would return on the neutral to the transformer with a phase by us, or if it would dissipate through the grounding electrode…

I’m leaning towards grounding electrode as there is no fees by us or voltage potential acting upon that capacitor anymore… And I don’t see how a capacity of charge can hold a phase by us without the source voltage acting upon it… Any thoughts?