 Following privatisation of the electricity industry in 1990, the role of Capenhurst changed with greater emphasis to a more independent commercial organisation and Peter was appointed the head of the Environmental Division. The new role embraced not only electrochemistry and chemistry for clean manufacturing, materials recycling and effluent treatment, but many other scientific areas, including high temperature ceramics, a three phase plasma unit for the destruction of chloro-organics, a novel atmospheric pressure microwave plasma, and metallurgically related projects, to list but a few.