Heat resilience for the built environment.
Cooling across the built environment was designed for outdated weather. As summers bring heatwaves, equipment that still works is reaching the end of its useful life early. We add capacity to existing systems, starting with the refrigeration that keeps our food supply safe.
Every cooling system has a limit.
Cooling equipment is designed for a maximum outdoor temperature. Above it, the manufacturer can't guarantee performance. Much of the equipment in service today was designed for summers we no longer have.
When it gets hotter than that limit, cooling loses capacity or shuts down. It happens on the hottest days, exactly when cooling is needed most.
In recent UK heatwaves, that has meant supermarkets switching off cabinets, moving stock and losing food.
The limit is moving.
Most UK supermarket refrigeration was designed for summers around 32°C. Retailers are now specifying new equipment for 45°C and above. The plant in service today was built for outdated expectations, but it is expected to run for years yet.
And it all fails on the same day.
A heatwave doesn't hit one site. It hits every building in the region at once, when engineers are busiest, parts are scarce, electricity prices spike, and there is no colder place where food will be safe.
Switch off, start again, or add headroom.
Operators with an overstretched system have had two options. They can turn part of it off and absorb the losses, or replace equipment years earlier, which is expensive, slow, and disruptive.
Temperate offers a third option: an add-on that keeps the plant you already own working in the climate it now faces.
Send the heat to space.
Temperate adds capacity to the cooling systems already in place. Our panels send excess heat through the atmospheric window and into outer space, reducing the burden on the legacy system.
*Headroom in a heatwave.
Your plant maintains capacity up to 8°C above its design limit, so cooling stays on target during the hottest days.
*Lower electricity use, most of all at peak.
The compressor does less work all year round. The biggest savings come on the hottest afternoons, when power is most expensive and the grid is most stretched.
*Keep the plant you have.
Equipment that still works shouldn't be replaced because the weather moved. Extra headroom lets you run your plant to the end of its planned life, and it wears more slowly along the way.
*Fast, reversible install.
We connect overnight with the plant paused for an hour or two. Everything else goes in while the store trades.
How close do your stores run to their limit?
Send us last summer's plant data and we'll tell you how many hours each site spent above its design temperature, and what headroom would be worth.
Get in touchWherever cooling has to keep running.
We're starting with supermarket and cold chain refrigeration. The same approach applies wherever cooling equipment has to reject concentrated heat.
Where we're starting
Food and refrigeration
Supermarkets and cold chain operators, where a failed refrigeration system means lost food and lost sales.
Where we go next
Buildings
Air conditioning and chillers serving offices, hospitals and public buildings.
Industrial processes
Vapour compression systems that keep manufacturing and its workers safe while maintaining the correct production temperatures.
Data centres
Cooling that has to maintain precise server and chip temperatures whatever the weather.
