2026 heat-pump brand share in Europe: who wins on R290 vs R32?
HouseHeatingPulseUsing EPREL listings, this piece will map which brands dominate Europe’s heat-pump market in 2026, then split the picture by refrigerant to show whether R290 leaders differ from R32 leaders.
Short read. This is a ~300-word brief based on the full analysis at Househeating Pulse. For the interactive charts, brand-level data, and source tables, open the original.
The strongest signal in the 2026 EPREL snapshot is concentration, not breadth: 777 manufacturers are present, but the top 5 brands account for 51.93% of all listed models and the top 10 reach 60.88%. In other words, the European heat-pump catalog looks pluralistic on paper, yet the visible portfolio is still dominated by a small set of firms.
At the top of the leaderboard sits Daikin Europe N.V. with 14,668 listed models, or 24.05% of the full registry. Mitsubishi Electric Europe follows at 9.14%, and Johnson Controls Hitachi at 8.54%. Bosch Thermotechnik and Ariston round out the top five, pushing cumulative share above the halfway mark. These figures come from the EPREL Public API as aggregated in Househeating Pulse’s Market Index v1, so they describe listed model breadth, not sold units or installed base.
The refrigerant split is where the article gets more interesting for data engineers. EPREL currently shows 13,935 R32 listings versus only 537 R290 listings. That means R32 alone represents 22.85% of all recorded models, while R290 is just 0.88%. The gap is even more meaningful when you add the coding noise: the registry also contains minor variants such as R290A and R290a, which is why the canonical refrigerant table matters for reproducibility and not just browsing.
This is the key question behind the full analysis on https://househeating-pulse.com/guides/2026-heat-pump-brand-share-in-europeans-eprel-r290-r32: do the brands that dominate the all-market leaderboard also dominate inside the R290 and R32 slices, or does refrigerant choice reshuffle the order? EPREL lets us verify the global model counts, SCOP averages, and brand concentration, but the cross-tab needed to answer the refrigerant-by-brand leaderboard is the real analytical prize.
If you need the registry-backed view of Europe’s heat-pump market structure, read the full analysis with live data on the canonical URL.
Househeating Pulse aggregates 60,000+ EPREL-registered heat-pump models across Europe — efficiency rankings, refrigerant trends, country-level installed prices and subsidies. Data from EPREL, Eurostat, NASA POWER. Full analysis at https://househeating-pulse.com/guides/2026-heat-pump-brand-share-in-europeans-eprel-r290-r32.