SHANGHAI: * China expects its installed power generation capacity to be about 2,000 gigawatts (GW) in 2019, with coal-fired power capacity at 1,040 GW, the China Electricity Council (CEC) said at an industry event on Tuesday

* Consumption by coal-fired plants is expected to increase by 80 million tonnes in 2019 versus 2018, said the CEC

* The CEC also sees installed new power capacity at 110 GW in 2019, including 62 GW coming from non-fossil fuel, Hou Yong, director of the CEC's department of industrial development and environment resources said at the event

* The CEC expects first-quarter power consumption to increase about 6 percent from a year earlier.