Abstract: An AC consumption controller, a method of managing AC power received at a battery plant in response to AC supply conditions and a battery plant are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the AC consumption controller include: (1) an AC supply monitor configured to recognize an AC supply event associated with a battery plant having at least one rectifier, a battery supply and a DC bus having a DC load current and configured to supply a DC voltage, the DC bus coupled to the rectifier and the battery supply and (2) an AC supply adjuster configured to maintain an AC power level for the AC supply event by regulating the DC voltage throughout the AC supply event to share sources of the DC load current between an output battery current of the battery supply and an output rectifier current of the rectifier.

Abstract: The present invention provides a central current share coordinator for use with remotely and non-remotely controllable rectifiers coupled to an output bus. In one embodiment, the central current share coordinator includes a rectifier current resolver configured to determine an existing current share condition for the remotely and non-remotely controllable rectifiers. Additionally, the central current share coordinator also includes a load share adjuster coupled to the rectifier current resolver and configured to adjust an output current of the remotely controllable rectifiers toward a target current share distribution on the output bus.