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 sharpest signal in the dataset is not a “rest-of-Europe” leaderboard at all: EPREL does not expose a dedicated cut for markets outside the big 15, so the best reproducible baseline is the Europe-wide registry. That baseline is already highly skewed. The current EPREL Public API snapshot contains 60,989 models from 777 manufacturers, and Daikin Europe N.V. alone accounts for 14,668 listings, or 24.05% of the catalog. The top five brands hold 51.93% combined, which means any smaller-country slice is likely to inherit the same concentration unless local procurement rules or distributor networks materially distort availability.
From a data-engineering angle, the useful pattern is to compare any “outside-big-15” query against the same source tables: brand_share, market_index_snapshot, and the type aggregates. Those tables show that the catalog is not just top-heavy, but also long-tailed: the visible top-10 reaches 60.88%, while the database still tracks 777 manufacturers overall. In other words, brand visibility and catalog depth are not the same thing.
The product mix also matters. Across the full EPREL snapshot, air-water models make up 30,452 entries, or 49.9% of listings, with air-air at 21,065 models and hp-water-heater at 9,228. That matters for smaller markets because the niche categories are tiny by comparison: ground-water has 213 models and water-water only 31. For efficiency, the standout codes remain water-water at a 6.15 SCOP average and ground-water at 4.77, but the search space is small.
On the economics side, the Eurostat household tariff table shows at least 14 smaller-country entries below the rough 3.7 electricity:gas ratio threshold for a SCOP 4 heat pump, including Bulgaria (2.09), Slovenia (2.44), Austria (2.68), and Czechia (3.35). That’s a useful reminder that favorable operating economics are not limited to warm climates; Estonia and Lithuania also land near 3.0 despite heating-degree-day totals above 4,400.
Read the full analysis with live data on the canonical guide: https://househeating-pulse.com/guides/2026-heat-pump-brand-share-in-europe-outside-the-big-15.
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-europe-outside-the-big-15.
