Origin and the Uranquinty Community

The Uranquinty Power Station currently employs thirteen people at the facility.

Origin’s Community Relations Advisor, Lisa Glastonbury, works closely with neighbours, village residents, and community groups to support and generate positive outcomes for the Uranquinty and wider community. She attends community meetings, produces a newsletter and keeps local people informed of activities and opportunities at the station.

Origin also maintains a 24 hour toll free phone number, mail and email address for community members to register comments or feedback.

At Uranquinty, we also work closely with the community to tailor our support to meet their needs, as we do with all of our projects and operations. Ways we have supported the Uranquinty community include providing access to our school energy efficiency and energy safety programs, which are free to teachers and offer educational information on energy efficiency and safety. The programs reach around 500,000 students across Australia. We’re helping to make sure every school in the Wagga Wagga region knows about these programs.

We are working closely with local schools to develop the Power Station as a valuable educational resource for our region, with a program of school tours being carried out.

Students from the Uranquinty Public School have already been on tour of the plant and are currently involved in the Origin Library Reading Challenge. Students are challenged to read more often and more widely, with winning students rewarded with book vouchers. The school library also benefits with the winning students’ helping the librarian to select $250 worth of books for the library each term.

Students from The Rock and Uranquinty have also been involved in hands on revegetation activities at the station, with students planting native trees and shrubs and learning about the value of native vegetation in providing habitat for native birds and animals.

Uranquinty Power Station is also involved in a number of new initiatives to support the local community, one of which is a solar partnership with the Uranquinty Progress Association. Origin has supplied a solar system to the roof of the new community hall enabling the local community to offset their electricity use as well as creating an income stream to fund worthwhile community activities.

The station is also strengthening ties with the wider Wagga Wagga community through its support of local sporting and cultural events, such as the Wagga Wagga Art Prize and 115th Riverina Open Tennis Tournament.