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 Europe’s 2026 heat-pump registry is concentration: a small set of brands dominates a very large catalog, while the refrigerant transition is still only partly visible in the data. In the EPREL-backed Market Index v1 snapshot, Househeating Pulse counts 60,989 models from 777 manufacturers, with air-water alone at 30,452 models and air-air at 21,065. That means the practical comparison space is already heavily shaped by a few high-volume segments before you even split on refrigerant.
On the brand side, the leaderboard is top-heavy. 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 Europe at 5,207 models (8.54%). The top five brands together account for 51.93% of listed models, so most of the market’s searchable depth sits inside a narrow front tier rather than across a flat field of competitors.
Refrigerant mix is more fragmented than the policy narrative suggests, but not by much. The registry records 13,935 R32 entries versus just 537 R290 entries, and 1,896 R410A declarations still remain in the corpus. That matters because the reference table pairs those codes with very different regulatory trajectories: R32 carries a GWP of 771 and an EU phase-out date of 2027-01-01, while R290 has GWP 0 and no listed phase-out date. See the live canonical analysis at https://househeating-pulse.com/guides/2026-heat-pump-brand-share-in-europe-by-refrigerant-and-type for the full slice logic and source notes.
The type-level picture reinforces the same point: the market’s biggest segment is not the most specialized one. Air-water averages 4.54 SCOP, 11.83 kW, and 59.8 dB outdoor noise, while the tiny water-water slice reaches 6.15 SCOP across only 31 models. That gap is exactly why brand share, refrigerant choice, and unit type need to be read together, not as separate dashboards.
Read the full analysis with live data on the canonical page, including the EPREL slices, refrigerant tables, and brand aggregation details: https://househeating-pulse.com/guides/2026-heat-pump-brand-share-in-europe-by-refrigerant-and-type
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-by-refrigerant-and-type.
