This video was produced when the laboratory operated as the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The laboratory is now the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR). This lecture is one segment in a series presented in a virtual course, hosted by the USAID and NREL Advanced Energy Partnership for Asia, on enhanced load modeling and demand forecasting for Southeast Asia, from July through September 2020. This lecture covers an overview of common load modeling and forecasting approaches and is presented by Jo Ann Ranola of NREL.