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 finding is not that R290 has “won” Europe — it’s that the EPREL slice shows a fragmented transition, with one refrigerant still vastly more visible in declared listings and the brand mix doing most of the work. In the 2026-06-12 Househeating Pulse snapshot, the catalog spans 60,989 heat-pump models from 777 manufacturers, but only 14,529 entries carry a visible refrigerant code in the extracted corpus, so reproducibility depends on treating this as a partial EPREL view, not a full market census.
On the declared refrigerant table, R32 remains the clear leader at 13,935 models, versus 537 for R290 and 1,896 for R410A. That makes the “R290 dominates Europe” claim inconsistent with the supplied data. The more defensible interpretation is that propane adoption is real but still narrow in the visible listing layer, while a large share of the corpus has no refrigerant value surfaced in this snapshot. For anyone validating the numbers, the relevant joins are the EPREL-backed market index snapshot, the refrigerant-universe aggregation, and the manufacturer-level brand-share rollup.
The brand side is where the market is concentrated enough to matter. Daikin Europe N.V. leads with 14,668 models, followed by Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V. at 5,575, Johnson Controls Hitachi at 5,207, Bosch Thermotechnik at 3,602, and Ariston at 2,618. Those five suppliers together account for 31,670 listings, or 51.93% of the European catalog. That concentration means a refrigerant shift can move quickly if it happens inside a few large catalogs — but the corpus does not expose a brand-by-refrigerant table, so the exact R290 contribution by manufacturer cannot be quantified from this run.
For the technical breakdown, including the filterable catalog slices and the methodology caveats, see https://househeating-pulse.com/articles/europe-2026-r290-share-by-brand-and-refrigerant. Read the full analysis with live data and source attribution if you want the underlying tables and reproducible checks.
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-share-by-brand-and-refrigerant.
