coal shortage
Not enough fuel
A coal shortage is an insufficient supply of coal to meet demand.
The phrase appears in discussions of energy crises, industrial disruption, or wartime rationing: The coal shortage forced factories to cut production.
Like other commodity shortages, it can result from supply chain problems, labor disputes, or increased consumption outpacing extraction.
- blackoutComplete power loss
- rolling blackoutsPlanned sequential power shutoffs
- rationingLimiting distribution during scarcity
- ration booksWartime supply allocation documents
- energy crisisSevere fuel supply disruption
power cuts · power station · miners · strike · general strike · stockpile · winter · heating · furnace · anthracite · black gold · pit · colliery · warmth · cold · deep freeze · hoarding · queues
- depletiondecline, deficit, exhaustion, depletion, overconsumption
- Energy Crisisfuel crisis, power outage, rolling blackout, oil embargo, energy rationing
- occupied Germanymilitary government, US Army, Soviet occupation, denazification, Berlin Airlift