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 clearest signal in the 2026 EPREL heat-pump snapshot is not a refrigerant race — it’s a data-coverage problem hiding behind a highly concentrated market. Househeating Pulse’s EPREL Public API pull shows 60,989 models from 777 manufacturers, yet refrigerant declarations are only partially populated: R32 is the dominant explicit entry at 13,935 listings (22.85%), while R290 reaches just 537 listings (0.88%). That 25.95x gap is large enough to matter for anyone comparing catalog depth by gas, but the missing 73.08% of models means you cannot safely infer the unfilled records from the visible ones.
The brand side is just as skewed. Daikin Europe N.V. leads the whole catalog with 14,668 models, or 24.05%, followed by Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V. at 5,575 (9.14%) and Johnson Controls Hitachi at 5,207 (8.54%). The top five manufacturers together control 51.93% of all listings, which is a useful proxy for where the bulk of searchable inventory, documentation, and installer familiarity will cluster. Interestingly, scale does not map neatly to efficiency: the market-average SCOP is 4.55, but Daikin sits at 4.44, while Bosch Thermotechnik reaches 4.69 and LG 4.93.
For developers and data engineers, the key nuance is schema quality. EPREL’s refrigerant field needs normalization before any brand-by-refrigerant attribution can be trusted: the catalog contains inconsistent labels such as R410A vs R410a, and the supplied corpus does not expose a reliable cross-tab for R290 or R32 leaders. That means the full analysis focuses on what can be proven from the declared-data slice, not on speculative leaderboards.
Read the full analysis with live data on the canonical page: https://househeating-pulse.com/guides/2026-eu-heat-pump-refrigerant-market-share-by-brand
For the underlying tables, methodology, and live filters, read the full analysis with live data here: https://househeating-pulse.com/guides/2026-eu-heat-pump-refrigerant-market-share-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/guides/2026-eu-heat-pump-refrigerant-market-share-by-brand.
