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 and Czechia look similar on climate inputs, but the market signal diverges once you inspect the support and operating-cost layers around EPREL. The live registry extract in Househeating Pulse cannot prove country-level brand concentration, refrigerant mix, or price tiers for either market, so any “Austria is premium” or “Czechia is fragmented” claim remains a hypothesis. What is measurable is the context that shapes demand.
Using the country_profile table alongside Eurostat tariff bands and NASA POWER normals, Czechia is slightly colder: 3,539.76 HDD18 versus 3,309.19 in Austria, and a January mean of -2.18°C compared with -1.64°C. Electricity pricing is nearly identical at €0.3217/kWh in Czechia and €0.3272/kWh in Austria, but gas is materially cheaper in Czechia (€0.0961/kWh vs €0.1221/kWh). That matters because Austria also runs a much cleaner grid: 89 g CO₂/kWh versus 449 g CO₂/kWh in Czechia.
The broader EPREL market is highly concentrated, even if the country slices are missing. On the global brand-share aggregation, Daikin Europe N.V. leads with 14,668 models and 24.05% share, followed by Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V. at 5,575 models and 9.14%. The top five manufacturers together control 51.93% of all listed models across 777 manufacturers, which is a useful baseline when you compare local catalogues through the canonical analysis.
Refrigerant declarations show the same pattern: R32 dominates the full EPREL snapshot with 13,935 listings, while R290 appears in 537. That global mix is not country-specific, but it does frame what installers are likely to encounter in Austrian and Czech catalogues.
For reproducible country comparison, the missing fields are the real story: filtered EPREL brand shares, refrigerant splits, and price-band counts by Austria and Czechia. Read the full analysis with live data at https://househeating-pulse.com/guides/2026-heat-pump-brand-share-austria-vs-czechia.
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-austria-vs-czechia.
