Programme Yarrow is a British government contingency plan to deal with possible nationwide power blackouts. The plan includes scenarios where power supply is severely compromised for up to a week. The plan was originally developed in 2021 to address the possibility of a major failure of the National Grid.[1]
The plan was stress tested by government in late 2022 to deal with possible outages caused by fuel shortages as a consequence of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[1][2] Another exercise, Noble Birch, had been conducted in previous months to test the practicality of government continuity in the absence of power.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b Crerar, Pippa; Lawson, Alex (1 November 2022). "Government tests energy blackout emergency plans as supply fears grow". the Guardian. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
- ^ Pickard, Jim (2 September 2022). "Whitehall prepares for winter blackouts with carbon-paper copying". Financial Times. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
- ^ Yorke, Harry; Gadher, Dipesh; Shipman, Tim (4 September 2022). "Police fear hard winter of surging crime and civil unrest". thetimes.co.uk. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
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