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Overview

Ark+Energy provides integrity-driven advisory solutions that help utilities, communities, and public agencies deliver affordable, clean, and resilient energy and water. As infrastructure systems face increasing cost pressure, reliability risks, safety obligations, and evolving policy expectations, Ark+Energy focuses on unlocking new value from existing assets (non-wire solutions or NWS) through practical strategy, advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), grid intelligence, grid edge capabilities, energy storage, analytics and disciplined financial analysis and strategy development.

Advancements in metering, analytics, and grid-edge intelligence, energy storage have created opportunities that were previously out of reach. Ark+Energy applies these capabilities to solve real-world challenges across demand-side management, distribution automation, community-scale energy solutions, energy storage, renewables, smart cities, and resource-efficient water systems. The firm bridges strategy, technology, operations, finance, and policy to help clients move from concept to execution with confidence.

Founder and Leadership

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Ark+Energy was founded by Dave Stensland, who brings decades of senior leadership and hands-on experience in the energy and water industry, including pioneering work in Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), DERMS and grid intelligence.

Dave has led innovation efforts that helped transform manual meter reading into the modern AMI platforms widely deployed across North America and globally today. His background spans technology innovation, financial leadership, deal structuring, market development, and operational execution.

This experience allows Ark+Energy to translate complex technology into actionable value, align utilities and partners, develop realistic business cases, design operational workflows, and reduce execution risk through proven implementation insight.

Solutions

  • Grid Intelligence & AMI Value Realization: Unlocking advanced use cases from existing metering investments, including safety improvements, wildfire and wires-down detection, asset optimization, and cost reduction.
  • Strategy, Program & Roadmap Design: Translating policy, regulatory, and organizational objectives into executable programs and enterprise roadmaps.
  • Business Case, Risk & Benefit Analysis: Quantifying financial, operational, reliability, safety, and risk-reduction benefits.
  • Community Energy & Resilience Design: Supporting community-scale storage, renewables, resilience hubs, and non-wires alternatives.
  • Technology & Integration Strategy: Aligning AMI, grid-edge intelligence, analytics, and operational systems to ensure insights reach the right teams.
  • Policy, Funding & Regulatory Alignment: Aligning solutions with policy objectives and funding programs.
  • Use Case Marketing Development & Write-Ups: Developing clear, decision-ready use case narratives for executives, regulators, and funding entities.

Services

  • Strategy & Change Enablement
  • Independent Technology & Vendor Advisory
  • Operational Workflow & Process Design
  • Financial Modeling & Investment Analysis
  • Risk, Safety & Claims Impact Assessment
  • Pilot Design, Metrics & Scale Readiness
  • Use Case Development, Documentation & Storytelling
  • Deal Pursuit, Proposals & Executive Narratives
  • Government Funding & Grants

Thought Leadership

Ark+Energy is driven by continuous innovation and actively researches emerging technologies and their applications across energy and water systems. The firm provides thought leadership through written content, industry engagement, and presentations at regional and national conferences.

Closing Statement

Ark+Energy is mission-driven, focused on delivering affordable, clean, and resilient energy and water by optimizing the performance of existing infrastructure assets. By integrating strategy, grid intelligence, operational workflows, financial discipline, governance, and clear use case development, Ark+Energy helps utilities and communities unlock measurable value, reduce risk, and execute with confidence—without unnecessary capital expansion.