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.
R290 is visible in Europe’s EPREL heat-pump corpus, but the data still points to a fragmented market rather than a clean propane takeover. In the current market snapshot, R290 appears on 537 of 16,444 refrigerant-coded listings — about 3.3% — while R32 still holds roughly 84.7% and R410A about 11.5%. The sharpest takeaway is not “R290 dominates,” but that the transition is real, yet numerically small and uneven across manufacturers.
That matters because the market is highly concentrated. Househeating Pulse’s brand-share aggregation shows 60,989 models from 777 manufacturers, with the top 15 brands covering about 67% of listings. Daikin Europe N.V. alone accounts for 24.05% of all models, Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V. for 9.14%, and Johnson Controls Hitachi Air Conditioning Europe for 8.54%. When a handful of large OEMs move, the market mix can shift quickly — which is why the full analysis on the canonical URL matters more than a simple refrigerant headline.
The technical catch: the available EPREL-derived tables do not expose a brand-by-brand R290 price series, so any claim about a universal propane premium would be unsupported. What the dataset does support is a reproducible view of market structure: refrigerant-coded listings, manufacturer concentration, and average SCOP. The market-wide SCOP sits at 4.55, while Bosch Thermotechnik GmbH reaches 4.69 across 3,602 models and Daikin averages 4.44 across its much larger portfolio. That spread shows why refrigerant choice, efficiency, and pricing should be analyzed separately, not assumed to move together.
For developers and data engineers, the useful pattern is clear: treat refrigerant mix as a categorical slice, validate it against EPREL public API outputs, and keep pricing hypotheses isolated until model-level price fields are available. Read the full analysis with live data at https://househeating-pulse.com/articles/europe-2026-r290-rises-but-prices-vary-by-brand.
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/articles/europe-2026-r290-rises-but-prices-vary-by-brand.
