Programme Yarrow is the roadmap of the contingency plan charted out by the UK government to analyze how a possible week-long power outage would affect the country and how to manage its consequences.
Programme Yarrow has warned that a nationwide blackout would severely impact the lives of people and organizations across multiple sectors. From transport to food and water supply, from radio and tv to other energy-consuming industries- the blackout is going to impact these sectors more severely.
The program warns that in the worst-case scenario, digital radios would be useless, and only the analog ones would remain functional. Among the radio stations, only BBC 2 and 4 would be in operation.
After the sanctions imposed on Russia, the country has been slowly reducing its energy exports to Europe- partly because of the sanctions and partly as a geopolitical strategy. The matter got worse when Nord Stream 1 – the main pipeline that carries gas to Europe from Russia was sabotaged by unknown actors; Russian gas export had fallen by 89% compared to the previous year. Unfortunately for Europe, 40% of its energy needs were met by Russia. Now with this sudden halt in the flow of gas to Europe, the latter finds itself in a tricky situation.
Sure,
there are other sources from where the EU can buy energy. However, it
takes time to switch from one supplier country to another. On top of
that, the energy crisis resulting from the war has resulted in
dramatically high energy prices. Russian gas prices increased by almost
30% after the Nord Stream 1 sabotage. High energy prices are further
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