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 key takeaway is not a Baltic-vs-Central-Europe winner’s podium — it’s that the public EPREL registry is already top-heavy enough that regional comparisons are only meaningful if you slice the underlying tables correctly. In the 2026-06-06 Househeating Pulse snapshot of the EPREL Public API, the catalog contained 60,989 heat-pump models from 777 manufacturers, and the top three brands alone controlled 41.73% of listed models. That concentration means any country-level mix can look “competitive” while still being anchored by a small set of pan-European suppliers.
At continental scale, Daikin Europe N.V. leads with 14,668 models and 24.05% share, followed by Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V. at 5,575 models (9.14%) and JOHNSON CONTROLS HITACHI AIR CONDITIONING EUROPE SAS at 5,207 models (8.54%). The top five reach 51.93%, and the top ten reach 60.88% — a useful baseline if you’re building a reproducible country comparison from EPREL brand-share aggregations rather than sales estimates.
The refrigerant layer shows a similar registry-wide skew. R32 appears on 13,935 listings, or 22.85% of the full index, while R290 is still only 537 listings, or 0.88%. Natural refrigerants account for just 3.27% of the market snapshot overall. If your pipeline is comparing Baltic and Central European assortments, that means chemistry mix is likely to matter as much as brand count, especially under the EU F-gas transition.
The full analysis also situates those listings against the climate and price tables from Eurostat, NASA POWER and the EEA: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are all above 4,400 heating degree days, while several Central European markets sit closer to 3,000–3,700. That context is why the canonical comparison is less about raw assortment breadth and more about how declared EPREL availability aligns with cold-climate demand, tariffs and refrigerant rules. Read the full analysis with live data at https://househeating-pulse.com/guides/2026-heat-pump-brand-share-in-the-baltics-vs-central-europe.
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-the-baltics-vs-central-europe.
