Other types of roofing will absorb the sun’s radiation heating your attic and home, thus causing increased demand for energy. Keeping your attic space cooler is key to saving on your electric. Metal roofing now offers color choices with “Cool Roofing” technology which has been proven to reflect over 90% of the sun’s blazing hot radiation by using special reflective pigment in their paints and coatings. Installing a metal roof can result in an approximately 30% savings on your summertime electric usage. Customers may choose from many colors and with this new technology even the darker colors perform far better now than in the past.