A new hybrid bee pollinator flower pollination algorithm for solar PV parameter estimation

•A new Bee Pollinator Flower Pollination Algorithm (BPFPA) is proposed for Solar PV Parameter extraction.•Standard RTC France data is used for the experimentation of BPFPA algorithm.•Four different PV modules are successfully tested via double diode model.•The BPFPA method is highly convincing in accuracy to convergence at faster rate.•The proposed BPFPA provides the best performance among the other recent techniques.