Dallas, TX— Kinko's, Inc. and Strategic Energy announced that 57 Kinko's® locations in Texas switched to Strategic Energy, a leading competitive retail supplier of electricity, in a "green power" deal that enables the stores to purchase a portion of their electricity needs from renewable resources and to deliver cost savings to the company. This agreement represents the first time Kinko's has signed a multi-market green power agreement to power their stores with renewable resources.

"Our new relationship with Strategic Energy helps us fulfill that promise by increasing our green power purchases throughout the great state of Texas," stated Glenn Shiroff, operations director for Kinko's. "We also expect to see a measurable drop in our annual energy bills, which is great news for any business!"

The new agreement is expected to result in Kinko's purchasing app-roximately 1.6 million kilowatt hours (kWh) of renewable energy each year. A purchase of this size offsets carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions as much as removing 204 passenger vehicles from the road. This is also the equivalent to the carbon dioxide absorbed by 760 acres of U.S. forest land.