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title: "Programme Yarrow"
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source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_Yarrow"
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category: "reference"
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tags: "science, encyclopedia"
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date_saved: "2026-05-05T11:43:33.793016+00:00"
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instance: "kb-cron"
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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.
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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. Another exercise, Noble Birch, had been conducted in previous months to test the practicality of government continuity in the absence of power.
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== References == |