How to Earn Pearl Badges
Discover how your home can gain recognition with Pearl Badges for specific high-performing achievements.
Pearl recognizes other specific performance achievements with badges, which provide additional acknowledgment for particular attributes of a home. Currently, Pearl offers two distinct badges:
- An Electrified Home Badge: This badge documents when a home has no fossil fuel usage on the property (internal, such as a natural gas furnace, or external, such as a propane-fueled pool heater), with the exception of dual-fuel heat pumps in Climate Zones 5-8. In these cases, the heat pump backup heating system must have at least 90% AFUE (Annual Fuel Utilization Efficiency).
- A Zero Emissions Home Badge: This badge verifies that the home has met the definition of a Zero Emissions Building issued by the U.S. Department of Energy.