A boost chopper circuit converts AC power to DC voltage and supplies the DC voltage to a load. The boost chopper circuit includes a switching element and a reactor. A controller ON/OFF controls the switching element based on a comparison result in an interval of the former half of a half cycle of the AC power between a detected input current by a input current detector and a current instruction value of a modeling waveform obtained by reducing a harmonic component of a predetermined order from the current waveform.