Power Strategies
for the Canadian
Resources Sector
Power is a top-five operating expense, but not core to your business model.
We provide the commercial strategy and data solutions to optimize your margins.
Western Canada's power markets are undergoing a major structural shift. Power is no longer just a static utility expense; it now drives corporate competitiveness, operational resilience, and long-term margin.
We combine frontline market experience with proprietary data solutions to design and implement resilient energy strategies. Acting as a seamless extension of your team, we convert complex power dynamics into measurable financial performance.
Our Services
Advisory & Delivery
Combining your data with our proprietary analytics, we screen for the highest-impact contractual, operational, and investment-based levers to unlock commercial upside with minimal upfront cost. We move beyond traditional advisory into active execution, supported by targeted training to transfer critical skills to your team.
Project Support
When investment-based levers offer the highest returns, we support your team from project framing through commercial delivery. Our focus is ensuring that project scopes, counterparty contracts, and financing arrangements are commercially robust and fully aligned with your strategic goals.
Data Solutions
Powered by our proprietary tools, we provide direct access to data analysis that clarifies complex market developments. This foundational insight scales into custom client dashboards, seamlessly integrating your operational & commercial data to deliver tailored commercial intelligence.
Levers - Our Power Strategy Framework
We build strategies focused on implementation, prioritizing commercial outcomes over technical novelty to mitigate risk and enable modular, self-financing deployment. We analyze which contractual, operational, and investment-based levers provide the highest value to our clients, and develop corresponding roadmaps for execution.
Contractual
Structuring agreements that mitigate risk and lock in commercial advantages.
Operational
Optimizing day-to-day energy management to protect your margins.
Investment-Based
Deploying capital into resilient, high-yield energy assets.
Founders
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Jan leads Arder’s operations and client value proposition, drawing on two decades of international leadership in the LNG sector.
Prior to founding Arder, Jan served as Executive Vice President at PetroChina Canada, where he was accountable for Commercial, Marketing, IT, and Supply Chain functions, and served on the LNG Canada Executive Committee.
Jan’s career began with Shell in London and The Hague, followed by a secondment to the Sakhalin 2 project as Contract Manager. In Canada, he provided M&A deal support before joining the LNG Canada Project as Commercial Deal Lead.
Jan holds a Master of Science in Finance from Texas A&M and a Graduate Industrial Engineering degree from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. His background is further supported by CPA and CMA (Canada), ACMA and CGMA (UK) accounting qualifications, and the Associate in Risk Management (ARM) designation.
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Co-Founder, President & General Counsel
JD, LLM, B.Sc., ICD.D
Sarah leads financing, legal, governance and external relationship management, including Arder's Advisory Board. She has held senior positions within LNG Canada (“LNGC”) / Shell and worked in investment banking with RBC Capital Markets, in law with McCarthy Tetrault, and had early career roles with the Privy Council Office in Ottawa and the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C. She has extensive capital markets experience and senior level commercial knowledge, having negotiated, evaluated and structured M&A, commercial and joint venture agreements for LNGC, and other previous clients.
Sarah holds a mid-career LLM from Osgoode Hall Law School, a JD from the University of Calgary, and a First Class Honours Bachelor of Commerce from Queen’s University. She is called to the bar in the State of New York and the Province of Alberta, and has completed the ICD-Rotman, Directors Education Program.
Clients, Memberships & Supporters
TSX-listed Canadian Oil & Gas Company
Major Global Investment Bank
Privately-held Canadian Oil & Gas Company
TSX-listed Canadian Oil & Gas Company
Our Value Proposition - Commercial Delivery
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Data analysis is only valuable when it drives measurable results. Our analytics target cost- and time-efficient screening to capture immediate advantages, transitioning seamlessly from initial diagnostic to tangible delivery.
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Transitioning efficiently from initial screening to implementation minimizes the client’s upfront capital commitment. We structure our commercial roadmaps to capture early savings, ensuring the engagement quickly becomes self-financing.
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By moving rapidly from initial assessment to active implementation, we align our commercial interests with your financial outcomes. Our priority is driving tangible results, not just providing reports.