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Mercatorian and spatial studies of solar power potential (SPP) provide technical guides for the preliminarydesign and installation of efficient photovoltaic plant. Modeling and simulation of the SPP were precededby acquisition and processing of essential satellite and on-station data; clearness index, relative sunshinehours, latitude and longitude. The mercatorian SPP model was developed as a geometric function of latitudeand longitude, whereas the spatial SPP model was developed with the application of the Haversine formulaas a function of 𝑥 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦 coordinates. The distributed and concentrated SPP contours were characterized bymultiple isodose lines and a single maximum isodose line, respectively. The present geometric SPP modelvalidated well with the measured SPP with insignificant error results (1.26173𝐸 ‒ 06 ‒ 2.93324𝐸 - 05)for the study areas. The study shows the range of the concentrated SPP as; 743.7 ‒ 757.5, 624.7 ‒635.2, 543.8 ‒ 557.5, 403.5 ‒ 405.9 𝑊/𝑚2 and the corresponding concentrated area is found as29084.648, 15368.638, 1179.585 𝑎𝑛𝑑 635.7 𝑘𝑚2, for the Northern Region (NR), Eastern Region(ER),Central Region (CR) and Western Region (WR), respectively. Also, the districts within the concentratedareas of the 𝑁𝑅, 𝐸𝑅, 𝐶𝑅 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑊𝑅 in Uganda are listed in the table of results. The areas established are usefulfor preliminary design of solar facilities. Also, it is obvious that NR is a home for installation of efficientsolar facilities based on the above results. Thus, the present work recommends for transmission of solarpower to the study area not favored with high SPP and extension of the state-of-the-art to other locationsyet to be studied.