Newcastle and District Electric Lighting Company

The Newcastle and District Electric Lighting Company (abbreviated to DISCo) was a pre-nationalisation, private electricity supply company, based in Newcastle upon Tyne in North East England.

[1][2] The company built a number of small coal-fired power stations in the west end of Newcastle upon Tyne, initially to supply homes and streets with electric lighting.

They also provided power for an electrified tram line in the western part of the city.

DISCo's distribution area was expanded west to Newburn in 1902, and north to Benwell and Fenham in 1904.

They were unable to extend this any further after losing a number of Parliamentary battles with NESCo in the early 1900s.