Regenerative load electric power management systems and methods

A regenerative load electric power management system can include a system bus (105), an input filter (225) coupled to the system bus, a first bidirectional solid state power controller (120) coupled to the system bus, a motor drive inverter (240) coupled to the input filter, a second bidirectional solid state power controller (130) coupled to the motor drive inverter, a bidirectional direct current DC-DC converter (135) coupled to the second bidirectional solid state power controller and an energy storage bus (110) coupled to the bidirectional DC-DC converter, the energy storage bus providing access to an energy storage device.