Home Performance with ENERGY STAR® is a public-private partnership designed to engage consumers in the highest form of home improvement: making homes safe, healthy, and energy efficient. The U.S. Department of Energy works with diverse industry stakeholders to advance the unique market transformation platform that is HPwES: it defines a process for translating complicated building science principles into solutions for homeowners seeking to improve not only home energy efficiency, comfort, and health, but durability as well.

Pearl’s Sponsorship of HPwES has been foundational to how Pearl Certification has conducted business since its inception in 2014. 

In 2022, the U.S. Department of Energy approved Pearl to expand its Sponsorship nationwide.

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If you have questions about Pearl’s Sponsorship of the HPwES program or are interested in how a state or utility program can work with Pearl to provide contractor oversight and other quality assurance and quality controls elements that are integral to the HPwES program, please contact us at [email protected].