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.
Czechia no longer reads as a classic subsidy-driven anomaly in 2026. The headline grant has fallen to €4,900, which is modest beside Austria’s €23,000, Germany’s €21,000 and Poland’s €31,000, yet the market still retains a strong operating-cost pull: household electricity is €0.3217/kWh versus gas at €0.0961/kWh, a 3.35 ratio that keeps heat pumps structurally competitive even after the support reset.
That shift is visible when you line up the country tables from the Househeating Pulse stack: country_profile for tariffs, HDD18 and grid carbon; country_compare for peer benchmarking; and the EPREL-derived product views for efficiency and product mix. The 30-year climate normal shows 3,539.76 HDD18, so Czechia is heating-heavy without being a Nordic outlier. Meanwhile, the grid remains relatively carbon-intensive at 449 gCO2/kWh, above Germany (366), Austria (89), Slovakia (102) and Slovenia (207), which means the market’s heat-pump signal is coming more from price structure than from clean power.
On the product side, the EPREL universe is still dominated by air-to-water models: 30,452 listings out of 60,989 total, with average SCOP at 4.54 and average capacity at 11.83 kW. That size band fits mainstream retrofit demand better than the niche ground-water and water-water segments. The brand layer is concentrated too: Daikin leads the EPREL stock with 14,668 models and 24.05% share, while the top three brands together account for 41.73%.
The key takeaway is reproducibility: Czechia in 2026 looks less like a “subsidy story” and more like a tariff-and-regulation story, with the declared refrigerant base still R32-heavy (13,935 listings) even as R290 expands from a small base.
Read the full analysis with live data on the canonical article: https://househeating-pulse.com/articles/czechia-2026-heat-pump-market-index-after-subsidy-reset
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/czechia-2026-heat-pump-market-index-after-subsidy-reset.
