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 most striking signal in EPREL is not that R290 is growing, but how unevenly that growth is distributed across brands. In the current 2026 snapshot, the database contains 60,989 heat-pump models from 777 manufacturers, yet only 537 listings are tagged R290 — just 3.27% of the catalog. That makes propane visible, but still far from mainstream. By comparison, R32 alone appears in 13,935 listings, while R410A still outnumbers R290 by a wide margin.
That aggregate view matters, but it can hide the real story: catalog scale is concentrated. Daikin Europe N.V. leads EPREL with 14,668 models and 24.05% of all listings, followed by Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V. at 5,575 models and JOHNSON CONTROLS HITACHI AIR CONDITIONING EUROPE SAS, SUCURSAL EN ESPAÑA at 5,207. Together, the top three manufacturers account for 41.73% of the whole market. Any refrigerant decision they make has disproportionate impact on the European transition path.
That’s why the brand split around R290 is the key read here. The market average is still only 3.27%, so a manufacturer materially above that baseline is not just participating in the shift — it is helping define it. The catch: EPREL’s public slices do not expose a clean brand-by-brand refrigerant cross-tab in the way developers would want for reproducible ranking. We can see catalog size, refrigerant counts, and type mix, but not yet a fully validated brand refrigerant share table for every vendor.
For the technical breakdown, including the implications for portfolio positioning, catalog composition, and why a large brand’s move to R290 can change market averages quickly, see the full analysis on the canonical page: https://househeating-pulse.com/articles/europe-2026-r290-gap-in-heat-pump-listings-by-brand
Read the full analysis with live data and source notes here: https://househeating-pulse.com/articles/europe-2026-r290-gap-in-heat-pump-listings-by-brand
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-gap-in-heat-pump-listings-by-brand.
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