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.
Austria, Sweden, and Finland are all “mature” heat-pump markets, but the data show they are mature in very different ways. The sharpest split is policy and pricing: Austria is the only one of the three with an active household support scheme in the registry, with one live subsidy and a ceiling of €23,000, while Sweden and Finland both show zero active subsidies and no recorded maximum in the Househeating Pulse subsidy register. That alone makes the trio a useful stress test for anyone assuming advanced markets share the same incentives.
The operating environment also diverges hard on climate and carbon. Finland logs 4,407.92 heating degree days at base 18°C, Sweden 4,242.38, and Austria 3,309.19, so the Nordic pair carries a materially heavier load. Yet Sweden is the cleanest grid in the set at 14 gCO₂/kWh, compared with 79 for Finland and 89 for Austria, which means electrification has the strongest carbon leverage there even though the heating demand is still high. The underlying country pages are built from the same reproducible stack: Eurostat tariffs, NASA POWER normals, EEA grid intensity, and the subsidy register.
On running costs, Austria is the closest of the three to a simple fuel-switching benchmark. Its electricity tariff is €0.3272/kWh versus gas at €0.1221/kWh, giving an electricity-to-gas ratio of about 2.68. Sweden is far lower at roughly 1.30, and Finland cannot be scored on this metric because the registry does not record a gas price. For the data method and the full comparison logic, see the canonical analysis at https://househeating-pulse.com/guides/2026-heat-pump-market-index-austria-vs-sweden-vs-finland.
The product-side snapshot matters too. The EPREL-derived 2026 market index covers 60,989 models and 777 manufacturers, with overall average SCOP at 4.55. But the catalog remains concentrated: Daikin alone accounts for 14,668 models, or 24.05% of the universe, and the top four brands sum to 47.64%. Refrigerant adoption is still lagging the rhetoric as well; R32 dominates, while natural refrigerants represent just 3.27% of the indexed market.
Read the full analysis with live data on the canonical page, including the country-by-country tables and EPREL slices: https://househeating-pulse.com/guides/2026-heat-pump-market-index-austria-vs-sweden-vs-finland
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-market-index-austria-vs-sweden-vs-finland.
