Radiative cooling · Roof intelligence

The Future
of Cooling

Emissiv develops transparent radiative cooling coatings that harness the power of deep space, and the satellite intelligence to find where they matter most.

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01 · The Cooling Paradox

A warming world demands more cooling, and cooling warms the world.

Cooling already takes around a tenth of the world’s electricity, and demand is set to double by 2050. Every new air conditioner burns power and vents heat, which raises temperatures, which calls for more cooling. Emissiv’s answer is not a bigger machine. It is a coating that harnesses the power of deep space, shedding heat passively to the coldest sink there is.

“We believe the solution is not about more complex machines, but instead one that utilises passive cooling.”
~10%
of global electricity
Cooling already consumes about a tenth of the world’s electricity today.
2× by 2050
cooling demand
Set to double within a generation as the world warms and populations grow.
2024
hottest year on record
The heat is not abstract. It is measured, and it is rising.
02 · The Technology

Radiative cooling: reflect the sun, radiate to space.

A radiative cooling surface does two things at once. It reflects sunlight so the roof takes in less heat, and it radiates heat away through the atmosphere to the cold of deep space, the coldest sink there is. The performance number that captures the first half is albedo, solar reflectance, and it is exactly what our satellite map reads from orbit.

Inspired by how ancient civilisations made ice in the desert, Emissiv applies radiative cooling principles to modern materials science.

The metric our satellite reads is the metric Emissiv’s coating moves.

See how the coating works →
A clear night sky full of stars, the deep-space sink radiative cooling sheds heat to.
03 · The Platform

The map that finds where cooling matters most.

We built the map that finds dark, heat-absorbing roofs, adds the building context behind them, and turns that into a ranked coating opportunity. The darkest roofs are the ones that need Emissiv most, and now we can find every one of them.

12
enriched UK city caches
Sentinel-2 albedo, cloud and shadow masked, across twelve UK city centres.
4,744
roofs mapped
Each a full record: measured albedo, OS NGD material, EPC and LiDAR geometry.
Free data
Sentinel-2 · OS NGD · EPC
Same physics as the product, pointed at the whole country, from free satellite data.
Aerial view of UK rooftops, the live roof-intelligence platform.
Live · the platform in motion
Explore the live platform →
04 · Useful information

Explore the work in depth.

05 · Contact

Interested in learning more, working with us, or joining our team?

Drop us a message. We work with building owners, city teams, funders and materials scientists who want to break the Cooling Paradox with us.

Get in touch →
Email

info@emissiv.com

Address

Scale Space White City,
58 Wood Lane, London W12 7RZ,
United Kingdom

© 2026 Emissiv · The Future of Cooling Imagery: Unsplash · Roof data: OS NGD · EPC: GOV.UK (OGL)