2026 heat-pump brand share in Austria vs Czechia: what EPREL shows

Market structure: Austria vs Czechia in one chart

EPREL listing counts are a useful proxy for catalogue presence, not for unit sales. That distinction matters here: the registry records declared products, not sell-through. For readers who want the broader baseline, the full market index snapshot shows 60,989 heat-pump models across 777 manufacturers in the database as of 2026-06-21 (market_index_snapshot / Househeating Pulse · Market Index v1, computed from EPREL Public API).

That said, the research corpus supplied for this comparison does not contain country-level EPREL listing counts, manufacturer counts, top-brand counts, local concentration ratios, country-level refrigerant shares, or country-level price-tier splits for Austria and Czechia. The registry extracts provided here include only overall market aggregates plus country energy-price, climate and subsidy context. So the core comparison implied by the title cannot be completed numerically from this corpus alone.

What can be said with numbers is narrower:

The climate side is broadly similar, with Czechia slightly colder by 230.57 heating degree days and 0.54°C in mean January temperature (country_profile / Eurostat tariffs (band DC/D2 latest); NASA POWER 30y normal; EEA grid CO₂; subsidies captured manually from official programme pages). Energy economics differ more meaningfully: Austria’s electricity price is only €0.0055/kWh higher, but its gas price is €0.0260/kWh higher than Czechia’s (country_profile / Eurostat tariffs (band DC/D2 latest); NASA POWER 30y normal; EEA grid CO₂; subsidies captured manually from official programme pages). Austria also has a much lower grid intensity, by 360 g/kWh (country_profile / Eurostat tariffs (band DC/D2 latest); NASA POWER 30y normal; EEA grid CO₂; subsidies captured manually from official programme pages).

For readers comparing installation economics rather than catalogue structure, those differences are often more actionable than raw listing counts. The country pages for Austria and Czechia, plus the subsidy calculator, are the natural next stops.

Which brands dominate each country’s EPREL listings

This is the first place where the data gap becomes binding. The supplied corpus does not provide Austria-specific or Czechia-specific brand rankings. It therefore does not support a numeric answer to “which manufacturers are the top 5 in each country” or “how many models does each top brand contribute to the local EPREL listing set”.

What the corpus does provide is the overall EPREL leaderboard, visible in our leaderboards hub and in the filtered manufacturer directory. Across the full dataset, the top five manufacturers are:

These figures may overlap with what buyers see in both countries’ local catalogues, but the corpus does not isolate Austrian and Czech listings. Any claim that Austria is led by one set of brands and Czechia by another would be speculative from this evidence.

Concentration test: top-3 and top-5 share compared

Again, the requested Austria-versus-Czechia concentration test cannot be completed from the supplied research corpus, because no country-level brand-share aggregation is present.

At the all-market level, however, concentration is clear. The top three manufacturers account for 41.73% of all EPREL-listed models, adding 24.05%, 9.14% and 8.54% respectively (brand_share / EPREL Public API · brand-share aggregation). The top five account for 51.93%, after adding 5.91% and 4.29% from ranks four and five (brand_share / EPREL Public API · brand-share aggregation).

That means just five manufacturers represent 31,670 models out of 60,989 total listings, while 777 manufacturers are active overall (brand_share / EPREL Public API · brand-share aggregation; market_index_snapshot / Househeating Pulse · Market Index v1, computed from EPREL Public API). Readers can inspect the full market distribution through the live EPREL catalog and individual brand profiles.

The article brief asks for model-per-brand ratios in Austria and Czechia. The registry extract here does not record those country-level ratios. It does allow one overall benchmark: 60,989 models divided by 777 manufacturers equals about 78.49 models per manufacturer across the full indexed dataset (market_index_snapshot / Househeating Pulse · Market Index v1, computed from EPREL Public API).

Refrigerants: how the technology mix differs

The brief asks for Austria-versus-Czechia refrigerant shares, especially R290, R32 and other refrigerants. The supplied corpus does not include country-level refrigerant breakdowns, so that comparison cannot be answered directly.

At the whole-database level, R32 dominates declared refrigerants with 13,935 listings (market_index_snapshot / Househeating Pulse · Market Index v1, computed from EPREL Public API). R410A follows with 1,896 listings, while an additional 49 listings appear under the variant spelling “R410a” and 10 under “R410” (market_index_snapshot / Househeating Pulse · Market Index v1, computed from EPREL Public API). R290 appears in 537 listings, plus small declared variants “R290A” with 2 and “R290a” with 1 (market_index_snapshot / Househeating Pulse · Market Index v1, computed from EPREL Public API).

Using only the exact main codes listed in the market snapshot, R32 represents 22.85% of all indexed models, R410A 3.11%, R410a 0.08%, R410 0.02%, and R290 0.88% (market_index_snapshot / Househeating Pulse · Market Index v1, computed from EPREL Public API). The market index separately reports natural refrigerants at 3.27% overall (market_index_snapshot / Househeating Pulse · Market Index v1, computed from EPREL Public API).

The reference table in the refrigerants reference adds useful context. R290 has GWP 0 and is classed A3, while R32 has GWP 771 and is classed A2L; R32’s phase-out date in the supplied table is 2027-01-01, and R134a’s is 2026-01-01 under the cited regulatory schedule (refrigerant_universe / IPCC AR6 GWP table; EU Reg. 2024/573 phase-out schedule; EPREL declared codes). The underlying regulatory framework is EU Regulation 2024/573, while product registrations flow through the EPREL portal.

The brief also asks whether refrigerant mix aligns with the most common model types and their efficiency levels. Only an overall answer is possible here. Air-water units are the most common type at 30,452 listings, followed by air-air at 21,065 and heat-pump water heaters at 9,228 (market_index_snapshot / Househeating Pulse · Market Index v1, computed from EPREL Public API). Overall average SCOP is 4.55 (market_index_snapshot / Househeating Pulse · Market Index v1, computed from EPREL Public API). The corpus does not break SCOP down by refrigerant within Austria or Czechia, so no country-specific alignment test is possible.

Price positioning and what it signals for buyers

The title and brief call for a comparison of price tiers. The registry extract provided here does not contain Austria-specific or Czechia-specific price-band data, nor any overall EPREL price-tier distribution. So no numeric statement about which market is more premium-leaning or more budget-skewed can be supported from this corpus.

What the country data does show is that buyers face different operating and support contexts. Austria combines a higher electricity tariff of €0.3272/kWh with a higher gas tariff of €0.1221/kWh and a much larger headline subsidy cap of €23,000 under “Raus aus Öl” (country_profile / Eurostat tariffs (band DC/D2 latest); NASA POWER 30y normal; EEA grid CO₂; subsidies captured manually from official programme pages). Czechia is slightly cheaper on electricity at €0.3217/kWh and more clearly cheaper on gas at €0.0961/kWh, while its named subsidy programmes top out at €4,900 each in the supplied euro-normalised data (country_profile / Eurostat tariffs (band DC/D2 latest); NASA POWER 30y normal; EEA grid CO₂; subsidies captured manually from official programme pages).

For households weighing running costs, that can matter as much as upfront list-price positioning. The payback calculator and country comparison dashboard are more directly useful than unsupported guesses about local EPREL price mixes.

What the data suggests for installers and market watchers

The editorial angle supplied with this brief says Austria appears more consolidated and premium-leaning, while Czechia looks more fragmented with a broader spread of brands and refrigerants. The supplied corpus does not provide the country-level brand, refrigerant or price evidence needed to verify that claim numerically. It should therefore be treated as an unconfirmed hypothesis, not a finding.

What is supported is more restrained:

• Both countries sit in the same “average” climate zone, but Czechia is somewhat colder on heating demand, at 3,539.76 HDD18 versus 3,309.19 in Austria (country_profile / Eurostat tariffs (band DC/D2 latest); NASA POWER 30y normal; EEA grid CO₂; subsidies captured manually from official programme pages).
• Electricity prices are very close, separated by €0.0055/kWh, while gas is more expensive in Austria by €0.0260/kWh (country_profile / Eurostat tariffs (band DC/D2 latest); NASA POWER 30y normal; EEA grid CO₂; subsidies captured manually from official programme pages).
• Austria’s grid is far cleaner, at 89 g/kWh versus 449 g/kWh in Czechia, a gap of 360 g/kWh (country_profile / Eurostat tariffs (band DC/D2 latest); NASA POWER 30y normal; EEA grid CO₂; subsidies captured manually from official programme pages).
• Across EPREL as a whole, the catalogue is concentrated around a handful of large brands and heavily weighted to air-water heat pumps and R32 declarations (market_index_snapshot / Househeating Pulse · Market Index v1, computed from EPREL Public API).

For installers, the practical implication is that local market reality should be checked in the live heat-pump catalog, not inferred from all-Europe totals. For journalists and analysts, the missing fields are obvious: country-filtered model counts, country brand shares, country refrigerant mixes, and country price tiers. Without those, Austria-versus-Czechia market-structure claims remain incomplete.

Sources

• EPREL Public API · brand-share aggregation — snapshot 2026-06-21
• Househeating Pulse · Market Index v1, computed from EPREL Public API — snapshot 2026-06-21
• IPCC AR6 GWP table; EU Reg. 2024/573 phase-out schedule; EPREL declared codes — snapshot 2026-06-21
• Eurostat tariffs (band DC/D2 latest); NASA POWER 30y normal; EEA grid CO₂; subsidies captured manually from official programme pages — Austria snapshot 2026-06-21
• Eurostat tariffs (band DC/D2 latest); NASA POWER 30y normal; EEA grid CO₂; subsidies captured manually from official programme pages — Czechia snapshot 2026-06-21

Continue reading

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• R290 vs R32 heat pumps — A practical look at refrigerant trade-offs, regulation and installer implications.
• How to compare heat-pump SCOP properly — What seasonal efficiency does and does not tell buyers across product types.
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