"scarce capacity" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a situation when there is not enough supply of a particular resource or ability to meet the demand. For example: "Due to the current public health crisis, the hospital has scarce capacity to treat all of the patients in need."
The standard was designed years ago with early mobiles' slow processors and networks' scarce capacity in mind.
Iain Osborne, the CAA's director of regulatory policy, said: "On balance, allocating scarce capacity to BA and easyJet is likely to deliver the greatest benefit to consumers.
Almost alone among the consortiums that operate regions of the grid, Pennsylvania-Jersey-Maryland uses a sliding fee scale for some transmission, allocating scarce capacity to those willing to pay most, and seldom resorts to a freeze.
Traffic signals allocate scarce capacity at roadway junctions and, as such, influence the level of service both locally and in the corresponding traffic network.
Just as importantly, millions of poor people are still waiting for access to modern energy services while their governments' scarce capacity has been absorbed by boondoggles.
The cellular concentration of auxin is due to both transport rate and homeostasis, but in the wood forming tissues, the latter is largely predominant on synthesis, catabolism and conjugation due to the scarce capacity of the cells [ 64].
When the current awarded projects start to cover large portions of the company׳s design and manufacturing capacities, the company confronts with the decision problem of choosing which customer order next to allocate the remaining scarce capacities properly.
Do new incentive elements for drilling promote effective utilisation of scarce rig capacity at an aggregate level, or do they primarily represent a zero-sum game?
The Airports Commission, as it is officially known, is required to report by the end of this year on interim measures to make best use of scarce runway capacity in south-east England.
Nathan Gardels, the editor of New Perspectives Quarterly, wrote in January that in America, "where the feedback signals from politics, the media and the market all steer society toward immediate self-gratification, there is scarce political capacity for the kind of long-term thinking, planning and continuity of governance that has so far been responsible for China's rise".
Two alternative market mechanisms have recently been designed to organize the allocation of scarce transmission capacity at cross-border level: (i) the "implicit auction", already used in some countries, and (ii) the "coordinated explicit auction", proposed by the European Transmission System Operators (ETSO) but not yet implemented.
