  We provide new formulas for the energy of black hole solutions in the anti-de
Sitter (AdS) sector of a generic gravity theory with curvature-squared terms.
This is achieved by the addition of counterterms of the extrinsic type
(\emph{Kounterterms}) which produces a finite variation of the total action.
The procedure is compatible with the boundary conditions in asymptotically AdS
spaces within the framework of Quadratic Curvature Gravity (QCG) theory. As a
consequence, without resorting to background-substraction, or linearized
methods, the conserved charges correctly reproduce the energy of static black
holes in QCG.
