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Win World Cup soccer tickets

Click here to enter the lucky draw to win two tickets to the Ghana v Germany match at Soccer City on 23 June 2010.
  
 
Wii winner
  
 
Congratulations to Tshepo Aphane of Business Connexion for winning the Wii competition in our December 2009 newsletter. Pictured is Keorapetse Mangadi, Scan’s IT Manager, presenting Tshepo with his prize.
  
 
 
 
Win a Mobi-Pro rental
  
 
 
 
Win the rental of a Mobi-Pro, a branded computer pylon, for your next exhibition or event. Scan will print branding for the Mobi-Pro and install your messaging on the screen. Email bryonie@scandisplay. co.za to be entered into the draw.

Louise Botha of Leenyx was the winner of the Mobi-Pro rental competition in the December 2009 newsletter. She will be using it at the upcoming KZN Dermatology Congress.
  
 
 
 
Give-away
  
 
 
 
The first 20 readers to email bryonie@scandisplay.co.za will
receive an A4 clip frame with graphics of their choice.
 
 
 

Scan uses ‘green energy’ at Meetings Africa

Scan Display powered its exhibition stand at the recent Meetings Africa show with certified green power, using the Renewable Energy Certificate system. This is the first time that an individual exhibitor has used renewable energy for its stand’s lighting and electrical appliances.

Certified green power
The Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) system can be difficult to grasp. It means that, while Scan used the Sandton Convention Centre’s energy supply on its stand at the show, it bought the equivalent certified green power from a company trading renewable energy certificates. This resulted in Scan indirectly supporting a green power source – in this case a solar photovoltaic generator in Northern Kwazulu Natal – and having zero electricity related carbon emissions.




GreenX Energy
The Renewable Energy Certificate was supplied by GreenX Energy, a Cape-based company that pioneered the concept of RECs in the South African market during the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development.

The REC system has been used for over a decade in Europe, the United States and Australia. It is gaining support in South Africa as the Department of Energy assists in developing the approach and local business becomes committed to green practices.

Cost
The RECs are normally denominated in 1MWh units and Scan used one REC (1MWh of energy) to power its 9m² stand for the three days of the show. One REC would have been sufficient to power 12 more identical stands for the three days of the show, but RECs are not divisible.

The REC cost Scan R350, which Scan Display’s MD, Justin Hawes, considers a nominal expense to pay for the benefit of using green power. Hawes says: “The REC system is a relatively inexpensive way of reducing the carbon emissions of your event or exhibition’s energy consumption, without having to resort to planting trees.”
Event Greening Forum
Justin Hawes has a special interest in greening and sustainability. He was instrumental in the formation of the Event Greening Forum, a group established to promote sustainability in the South African events industry. The group’s objective is to create awareness of the need for greening in the meetings, incentives, conferences, exhibitions and events industries.
 
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